Here I gather and summarize, and sometimes comment on, various news articles, opinion pieces, and other documents pertaining to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2 virus, and its socioeconomic impacts. Although I am not an expert in infectious diseases, I am seeking to understand the disease and its implications as well as I can. I created this document as a way for me to track useful articles on the subject, and perhaps the document will be useful to others seeking to get a handle on the crisis. Obviously this is not anything like a comprehensive collection of relevant links. This document was created on March 24, 2020, and subsequently edited. On April 28, I stopped adding new material to this document (which had grown unwieldy) and started a “COVID-19 Updates” page for subsequent material.
Continue reading “COVID-19 Resources”Steven Horwitz on Hayek and the Family: Self in Society #12
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Pamela Clare on Romance Fiction: Self in Society #11
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Melvin Konner on Religious Belief: Self in Society #10
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Kevin Currie-Knight on Self-Directed Education: Self in Society #9
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Jason Crawford on the Roots of Progress: Self in Society #8
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John Coffey on Religious Toleration: Self in Society #7
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Rand’s Metaethics: A Reply to Don Watkins’s Nonobjective Review
Last year I released my book, What’s Wrong with Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics, in which I criticize Rand’s formal metaethical theory (and defend various aspects of Rand’s broader moral theory), and I have written several essays on the topic since.
In his July 21, 2019, review (“Atlas Neutered: Ari Armstrong’s Straw Man Attack on Objectivism“), Don Watkins ignores almost all of the substance of my book, grossly distorts what he does address, and descends into juvenile name-calling, assuring his readers that I wrote my book in “bad faith” and that I am guilty of intellectual “theft” (my exhaustive citations notwithstanding).
Continue reading “Rand’s Metaethics: A Reply to Don Watkins’s Nonobjective Review”Lawrence Goldstone on the Death and Legacy of Michael Servetus: Self in Society #6
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Timothy Sandefur on the Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: Self in Society #5
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