Idea State: Tentative

• 2021
• Philosophy

  In Defense of Motivated Belief

• 2020
• Philosophy

  Paternalism Is Justifiable on Civil Libertarian Grounds

• Political Economy

  Returns to Scale, Not State Capacity

• 2019
• Money & Macro

  What’s Radical about MMT? An Attempt to Pin Down MMT on Public Finance

• 2017
• Philosophy

  Why Wittgenstein Needs Chomsky: Language vs. the Language Faculty

• Philosophy

  Why I Am Not a Vegetarian: Moral Value Comes from Cooperation, Not Sentience

• Political Economy

  A Post-Scarcity Society Would Probably Be Dystopian

• Political Economy

  On “Feels-Based” Policy

• 2016
• Culture & Current Events

  Why I Don’t Worry about Nuclear War

• Culture & Current Events

  Self-Interest is the Basis of Self-Denial: On Cooperative Equilibria and the Capacity for Commitment

• Philosophy

  The Extended Order as Moral First Principle: The Moral Philosophy of The Constitution of Liberty

• Culture & Current Events

  Nationalism Is Weird

• Political Economy

  Economics Is Not About Policy

• Culture & Current Events

  Moral Equivalence and Opposing the Government

• 2015
• Money & Macro

  Aggregate Demand Spillovers Aren’t Coherent

• Culture & Current Events

  The Market and the Masses

• 2014
• Political Economy

  The Curious Contours of Contractual Freedom: A Cynical Spin on Civil Society

• Money & Macro

  The Significance of Profit: A Failure of Equilibrium, or a Success of Coordination?

• Political Economy

  A Note on the Microeconomics of Time Preference

• Money & Macro

  Nozick and Fractional Reserve Banking

• Money & Macro

  The Unit of Account Is Special; The Medium Of Exchange Is Not

• 2013
• Philosophy

  Public Reason Liberalism and Kuyperian Epistemology

• 2012
• Culture & Current Events

  “Conservative” and “Liberal” are Heuristics, Not Ideologies

• Culture & Current Events

  Copyright Breeds Monolithic Culture