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Nozick’s preface sets forth his main conclusion: only a “minimal state”–i.e. a collective “limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on”–is consistent with the principle of individual rights. Nozick further concludes … Continue reading →

Let’s begin our review of Robert Nozick’s book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick opens his preface with this famous sentence: “Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).” This … Continue reading →

… A page by page, chapter by chapter review of Nozick’s classic work Anarchy, State, and Utopia. (Here is a PDF of Nozick’s book for your reference.) Fasten your seat belts, this project will take up the rest of November … Continue reading →

We haven’t forgotten our family, friends, and fellow citizens in the beautiful Island of Puerto Rico.

Missing from this infographic: What is the average (median) sentence imposed on the 83 convicted war criminals?

Remember the Y2K Problem? Looks like we can add “the lack of net neutrality” to the list of terrible worries that were overblown or never materialized. Back in 2006, for example, our libertarian friend and colleague Tyler Cowen supported the … Continue reading →

Note: This is a follow-up to our Nov. 14 post titled “A Bayesian defense of the Hadley rule.” In our 2014 paper Trolley Problems, we wrote (footnotes omitted): “Consider the [standard] version of the trolley problem [pictured below]. There are … Continue reading →

Because of our lifelong fascination with classical legal and religious texts like the Twelve Tables of ancient times and the Ten Commandments of biblical times–and with the rules and methods of interpretation of such texts–, we stumbled upon Steven D. … Continue reading →