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Marx & Rawls vs. Nozick & the "Land Back" Left
Is justice about turning back the clock to some past distribution of property or creating a more equal society going forward?
Mar 24
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Peter Hitchens vs. Christopher Hitchens: Can Civilization Survive Without God?
In late 2010, the Hitchens brothers debated the link between "civilization" and belief in God.
Mar 17
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Susan Wolf's Critique of Moral Saints
In a classic paper, Susan Wolf makes a compelling case against the ideal of moral saintliness. If she's right, how does that fit with the moral urgency…
Mar 11
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Full Automated Palestinian Luxury Communism from the River to the Sea?
Some thoughts on the uses and limits of maximalist demands.
Mar 4
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February 2024
John Stuart Mill on Justice and Utility
Let's take a closer look at Mill's case against non-utilitarian standards of justice.
Feb 25
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Why Ayn Rand Would Have Hated Ari Aster's "Midsommar"
it turns out that morality and self-fulfillment are two things, not one thing.
Feb 19
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Tim Pool vs. Karl Marx on Personal and Productive Property
Tim Pool is confused.
Feb 14
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Bodily Autonomy Has Nothing To Do With "Self-Ownership"
Also, why are libertarians so fixated on rape analogies?
Feb 11
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What Marx's Materialism Isn't
Even many people who think of themselves as Marxists are confused by what "material" means in the context of Marx's "materialism" and hence about the…
Feb 7
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Analytical Marxism in the 1990s
Wright, Levine & Sober's "Reconstructing Marxism" (1992) is a brilliant book. But we need to think harder than WLS do about how to steer away from left…
Feb 4
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January 2024
Stop Me Before I Kill Again: Kadri Vihvelin on Autonomy and Psychological Compulsion
In a paper that surely has one of the best titles in the history of analytic philosophy, Kadri Vihvelin argues that even addicts and kleptomaniacs are…
Jan 21
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Stop Me Before I Kill Again: Kadri Vihvelin on Autonomy and Psychological Compulsion
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Historical Materialism in the 1990s
Reviewing Erik Olin Wright, Andrew Levine, and Elliott Sober's 1992 book "Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History."
Jan 14
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