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It’s widely popular, yet very unpleasant and entirely undesirable. I jest. In truth, anarcho-communism is a wholly decent (and often misinterpreted) social theory. That being said, it isn’t as desirable or as libertarian as individualist anarchism. In the following post, I hope to shed some light on why this is the case. As a former…

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In a recently published paper, I defend what I call U.S. free speech exceptionalism (FSE) against recent objections from philosophers. FSE refers to the constellation of legal norms and precedents that makes it difficult in the United States to prohibit various kinds of undesirable speech. In the U.S., for instance, hate speech is protected as…

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I’ve revised the biographical blurb for Alison Bowles at PoT’s “About the Blog and Bloggers” page. I apologize to anyone learning belatedly of her tragic death in this fashion. I myself learned of her passing on the morning of March 10, but believe it took place a few days earlier. I’ve written a more personal…

The better responses to profound grief involve acknowledging it, feeling it, expressing it, working through it (mostly privately perhaps but being seen and understood in it by others is important to). Even if it is true that, from some impartial or cos…

Having recently experienced a terrible tragedy–the untimely death of my estranged wife by suicide–I can’t suppress a passing literary thought: Is there any major work of tragic literature broadly conceived more preposterous, more wildly inapposite to the subject matter, than the Book of Job? The Book of Job is one of the literary masterpieces of all time,…