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Sunday, July 26, 2020
Differentiate Positive Claims and Normative Claims
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Something that has annoyed me in recent months is the unwillingness to distinguish between positive and normative statements. A positive sta...
Sunday, July 5, 2020
The Elephant Rider On Full Display
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Jonathan Haidt has an excellent metaphor for how people form their political opinions. (Also their opinions on moral and cultural questions....
Sunday, June 28, 2020
A Hypothetical Dialogue
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Person 1: Social phenomenon X is the cause of social phenomenon Y. Person 2: Actually, X isn’t the cause of Y. Person 1: What!? Are you ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Notes on "Abolish the Police"
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I found the recent #AbolishthePolice hashtag interesting. Philosophically, I lean toward anarchism. Specifically anarcho-capitalism as descr...
Monday, June 22, 2020
On the Recent Disparagement of Property Rights
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I am quite pleased to see the recent outpouring of anger at police misconduct after the killing of George Floyd. I've been following pol...
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Friday, May 29, 2020
How the Lockdown Ends
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In his book Hitch -22: A Memoir , Christopher Hitchens describes Salman Rushdie's experience living under a fatwa against him . Rushdie ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
For Whom Are We Preserving the Commons?
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The " tragedy of the commons " is a classic collective action problem. Really, it's a short-hand term for all collective actio...
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