Law & Society Blog

I have long been critical of the tactics that are sometimes employed by left-wing activists on college campuses, and also of the kind of thinking (or perhaps more accurately not thinking) that tends to motivate the use of such tactics. This criticism has earned me much scorn from members of the campus left, and […]

Given Hanno’s post directly below, it is particularly appropriate to examine the question to what extent we ought to mourn the victims of the 9/11 attacks, relative to those who die from many of the causes mentioned in the chart in Hanno’s post.
In response to this post of mine on the anniversity of the 9/11 […]

In this post over at Philosophy, et cetera Richard Chappell suggets that in liberal democratic societies civil disobedience may never be morally acceptable. He says of radical activists (including those involved in the actions described here, whose tactics seem to have played a role in motivating his post):
These dogmatists feel so assured of the […]

Matt Wood’s thoughts on power raise a number of important issues. Ben suggests that questions about power can be separated into 1) questions about what individuals in fact have the power to do, and 2) questions about whether the exercise of certain powers that individuals have is legitimate. Questions in the first category […]

In my post entitled Capitalism, Utopianism, and Democracy I say this:
What is perhaps most striking about the articles written by the free marketeers is that, despite containing a great deal of commentary on the role of government, there is no mention of democracy. They clearly emphasize that it is an essential role of government to […]