Tag Archives: Will Wilkinson
Wilkinson On Limited Government
A very wise post. He makes the distinction between small government and limited government and then argues for the importance of the latter. I think this takes us to another sense of “limited government” as “limited to what non-government alternatives … Continue reading
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Liberaltarianism: The Turducken Of Politics
Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsay once proposed that libertarians have more in common with liberals than they do with conservatives. But now that we collectively wait for the Keynesian surge to fry the system, Jonah Goldberg and John Hood wanted … Continue reading
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Clubbing Immigrants
Will Wilkinson has raised a fair amount of sand with a post on immigration. Borrowing a page from George Lakoff, he attempts to recast the frame of reference: instead of nation states, now we will speak of clubs and membership. … Continue reading
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Does Democracy Corrode Moral Character?
Yes, and I’ll offer a few points as to why. Consider it the flip side to the forum hosted by the Templeton Foundation on a different, though also important, question. They ask whether liberty corrodes moral character; I take it … Continue reading
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The Status Quo Machine
Will Wilkinson has a carved a nice niche out for empirical moral philosophy on his diavlogs at Bloggingheads. This week he and Joshua Knobe chat about some research concerning Robert Nozick’s Experience Machine. It seems little Bobby Nozick had it … Continue reading
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