Monthly Archive: October 2011

In a semi-recent post by fellow Gentleman JamesK, commenter Creon Critic gave an ineresting comment that bears a reply Take the issue of trade liberalization discussed in this thread. Competing values include preserving a way...

My colleague Jonathan Blanks writes: Last week, former undercover police officer Stephen Anderson told the New York State Supreme Court that planting drugs on innocent people was so common that it didn’t even register...

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of reevaluation of my political views; mostly, I’ve been questioning whether political philosophy and theory mean a whole heck of a lot, even when they’re right.  A big...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is metastasizing, or salubriously spreading, depending on your perspective. Over the weekend protests occurred across the globe, with occupiers taking over Times Square, resisting removal in Chicago, and mobilizing...

(Rick Perry wins the Debate Raffle, accepts life-size inflatable Mitt Romney Doll prize from Herman Cain.)   Two quick confessions: First Confession: I have not seen any of the GOP debates up to this...

I just finished A Feast For Crows last night. Now I’m considering whether to drop the extra money on A Dance With Dragons, but of course I know I’m going to. Still, I am taking a...

This is the first post in a series. This took a significant amount of time to write (most of the research had been done previously), so don’t expect these to come with a low...

There was recently an article in The Atlantic called All the Single Ladies in which the author explains how she broke up with her steady boyfriend when she was 28 (“something was missing; I wasn’t...

The topic of democracy has been batted around by several of us over the past couple of weeks, and with the “Occupy ____” movement building momentum (There was even an “Occupy Auckland” protest here...

Since a week from now, I get to blog full time instead of letting it occupy my nights and weekends, I think I’d like to try my hand at something I’ve never done before:...

I am currently taking a course on the epistemology of disagreement and social epistemology. One of the topics that came up was about what to do about experts.

So, for anyone who wants a useful aggregation of my various posts hither and thither and thereabouts, I have put together a Facebook page with all my League and Forbes material linked therein. When and if...

For a protest movement to be successful, it usually needs a manifestly just set of complaints. These complaints need to be plausible on some theory of justice, and they need to be widely shared....

Let’s say you and I are sitting at lunch and you get up to use the restroom. Uninvited, I grab your cell phone and start paging through your text messages and your directory and...

Members of the League occasionally ask about nuclear power (or muse as to why the U.S. doesn’t seem to have a well thought out energy policy including nuclear power). Go here and “sign” (registration...