Author: Jason Kuznicki

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Higher Education in the 21st Century. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in...

During our charity symposium, I argued that much of what we do for charity is really self-regarding, and we can know this because these acts are inefficient when evaluated for their help-giving power. For...

Or, A Thing I Do Not Understand about Conservatives

The runner’s high is the best biohack I know. The dorveille is good solid second. What is it? Set your alarm for about halfway through your usual sleep cycle. Get up. Stretch. Read a...

My friend Timothy Sandefur has an excellent post on the hermeneutics of time and constitutional interpretation.

An attempt to restore balance to the Force. Annotated for readers’ benefit.

Here’s a thing I don’t get: Why aren’t way more progressives putting money into the stock market, and then politicizing the hell out of it?

A long reply to Michael Huemer, below the fold.

Within my remaining expected lifespan—that is, within 40-50 years, I expect the following. I am avoiding predictions about policy or politics because I find that in others these tend overwhelmingly to be projections of...

The state does many things that none of us would ever tolerate in our friends or neighbors. If everyone judged the state and its agents by the same moral standards that they used for...

We all rely on, and are duped by, very smart people. It happens all the time, and we can’t do otherwise. Let’s start with someone I think probably no one doubts is a bigot:...

…but that may not mean what you think it means. Property rights as enacted in the real world, not as discussed in political theory, are not imaginary. Nor are these rights “merely” conventional, as...

Are we at war? Yes. We are at war. Who is our enemy? Al Qaeda is our enemy. Is al Qaeda a nation-state? No, they are not. What is al Qaeda? Experts have described...

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” — Terry Pratchett So, Pope Benedict XVI is resigning, which...

Today was a glorious day, full of work and play. And a little guilt. Alice, Boegiboe, and I ate French toast for breakfast. We played with Play-Doh together. We watched Coraline. I went grocery...

“No, no, no,” said the Skeptic. “I’m telling you—the language itself is corrupt. The words you use make the outcome a foregone conclusion. Always. They limit your vision.” “You’re—ehhh—telling me?” asked the Cynic. “With,...

Here’s a bit about commas. It’s actually difficult to express grammatical rules systematically and in your own words, so I’ve likely made some mistakes along the way. What follows is less “here are the...

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far,...

The real-life states people are stuck with, more often than not because their distant ancestors were beaten into obedience by an invader, and sometimes due to Hobson’s choice, to having to take one king...

Cato Unbound this month features a discussion on terminal illness, the medicalization of death, and physician-assisted suicide. There is of course no shortage of controversy on this long-simmering issue.