Three academics just made public a secret project they had been engaged in for a year: submitting absurd, nonsense articles to major, peer-reviewed journals in gender studies and similar fields — and getting them published. Whatever it is you’re thinking was in those articles, I… Read More
Archives for October 2018
Ep. 1253 Libertarian Culture Wars
In this juicy talk I do begin with some internecine libertarian wrangling, to be sure, but that’s not my primary focus. I cover lots of ways in which we libertarians find ourselves at odds with the culture that surrounds us. The empire’s reaction to the… Read More
Ep. 1252 The Brett Kavanaugh Ordeal, with Dave Smith
Dave Smith, the popular comedian and host of the Part of the Problem podcast, joins me to try to get to the bottom of the situation with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford. Related Articles “ How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying ,” by… Read More
Ep. 1251 Are There Objective Moral Truths?
Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of the outstanding libertarian book The Problem of Political Authority. Today he discusses his work in “ethical intuitionism,” which holds that (1) there are objective moral truths; (2)… Read More