Last year, philosophers Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Den Uyl’s published a strong work, The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism. Editor of Reason Papers Shawn Klein has published this collection of symposium papers by philosophers and political theorists in response.
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I’m happy to see this review online now. Bronowski was one of my heroes when young, and Sandefur has written a first-rate biography.
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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks; executive director for Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University and our guest today is Timothy Sandefur. Mr. Sandefur is senior staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation based Sacramento,
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Recently, I met a young man in Miami. Instead of taking a taxi I decided to try Uber for the first time. Rafael (not his real name) showed up a few minutes later. Traffic was bad in rush-hour Miami, and along the way we started chatting. He was a Cuban, I learned, and until recently
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Lawyer Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation is guest blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy. In 2009, Sandefur spoke at Rockford University on on the topic of “Market Entrepreneurs and Political Entrepreneurs: Some Legal and Constitutional Issues”; my follow-up interview with him is at the CEE site. He is the author of several works, including
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My short, unhappy review [pdf] of Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical (A.A. Knopf, 2012) is now out in the latest issue of Reason Papers. The issue as a whole [pdf] also features a timely symposium of seven scholars on Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth?, several independent essays, and ten reviews of recent
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Should one be free to drive a taxi in Miami? Apparently not. The city government of Miami controls the number of taxi cabs and, as of 2002, had decided that only 1,856 taxi licenses shall exist. When a license becomes available, it is sold via lottery. But to participate in the lottery one must pay
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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has produced a monograph version of Timothy Sandefur’s To Pursue and Obtain Happiness and Safety, now available at cost at Amazon. In the monograph, Sandefur discusses economic liberty’s up-and-down legal fortunes, as the American founders’ original protections of productive freedom, property and contract rights came under attack during the
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