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@isomorphisms: I don’t know why people don’t celebrate the increased supply of young lawyers. Lower cost of representation is a huge step toward fairness and justice before the law.

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Things That Would Not Exist If Everyone Were Equal

@portereduardo and I were discussing redistributive taxation on twitter the other day. Mr Porter wrote a piece in the NY Times about hyper-taxing the tippy top margin of American income to reduce the US’ yearly government deficit. Economists Pikkety & … Continue reading

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Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical — but with something missing. Sometimes what is missing in a fallacy is simply a definition. Undefined words have a special power in politics, particularly when they … Continue reading

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Utopia. Class struggle. Liberty. Tyranny. Property. Natural law. Human rights. Rousseau, Locke, Paine, Plato, Spinoza, The Federalist Papers, Marx, Rawles, and the rest. What is a “good” society and how can “we” make our society better? For me there was … Continue reading

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