January 7, 2013

Who's 'Dangerous'?

In the wake of last month's tragedy at Newtown, some now assert that the law should make it easier to hospitalize dangerous people against their will. Their reasoning is intuitively seductive: If Adam Lanza (the Newtown shooter) and James Holmes (the...

December 16, 2012

Fairness and Freedom

Fairness is a value judgment. In the fight over taxing the rich, those with good values are losing the judgment. They are losing because they have failed to name, and defend, the moral right which ought to define fairness toward all taxpayers: the ri...