A reflection on State Capacity Liberalism, and on the premises of an emerging programme.

Structural factors are driving us towards a more chaotic and lawless world.

One of the minor oddities of Spinoza’s Political Treatise (hereafter: TP) is that chapter VII goes over the same model of ordered monarchy that was handled in chapter VI.

Fairly quickly into his modeling treatment of what I’ve been calling ‘ordered monarchy,’ Spinoza introduces the striking claim that all polities are “always put at greater risk on account of” their ow...

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

If you have been following my recent blogging on Hume’s History (recall here; and here), you will have noticed that I have been pushing a bit against treating Hume exclusively as a spontaneous order t...

What's in the new National Planning Policy Framework

In my last post, I noted that there are two conceptualizations of the divisions of labor in Adam Smith: first, we have the concentrated division of labor; this is the pin-factory that is fully knowabl...

I am delayed waiting to go to Prague to join my old friends of the Hume Society.

The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence ...

See Unifresher’s definitive list of the best universities in the UK for 2026/27 admissions. Ranked by real student priorities and experience.

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said the operation targeted Minneapolis-based antifa groups.

Join us for an evening examining how we learn from others and how society shapes the way we think about young people and responsibility. <br /> <br /> Food platters ar…

Researchers from the University of Lincoln share their discoveries with you.

Join us for a thought-provoking night exploring how smarter policies and social systems can help prevent crime and improve policy, access to information an…

I have been reading Matt Zwolinski (San Diego) since the very first days of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians (hereafter BHL) blog over fiteen years ago or so.

Let’s flip the race to the bottom and reconstruct this country.

On scarcity, subsidies, and who really pays the price.

The dangers of a strategy with no doctrine.

‘Neoliberal Social Justice is a remarkable book. Nick Cowen shows that John Rawls’s normative commitments, if complemented by institutional and market-process economics, actually support classical lib...