Danny Shahar

Danny Shahar
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Danny Shahar is an intern at the Foundation for Economic Education.  He has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and plans to begin work on a PhD in philosophy in the Fall of 2009.  Danny's research generally falls within the fields of ethical, political, and economic philosophy.  He writes a blog called Back to the Drawing Board.

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Columns by Danny Shahar

Could We Ever Justify Restraining Someone From Doing Drugs? (Part I)
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Danny Shahar 2008-08-20 16:00
Exclusive to STR August 21, 2008 Check out a simultaneously refreshing and infuriating article about American drinking-age laws from CNN. It's nice to see that adults are finally starting to approach this absurd law, given the near impossibility of a youth-led effort at liberalization in this area ("We should be allowed to drink as much as we want, we're responsible enough!!!"). But in...
The Seen and Unseen of Drinking-Age Laws
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Danny Shahar 2008-08-20 16:00
Exclusive to STR August 21, 2008 Check out a simultaneously refreshing and infuriating article about American drinking-age laws from CNN. It's nice to see that adults are finally starting to approach this absurd law, given the near impossibility of a youth-led effort at liberalization in this area ("We should be allowed to drink as much as we want, we're responsible enough!!!"). But in...
Paternalists Just Don't Understand
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Danny Shahar 2007-11-19 17:00
Exclusive to STR November 20, 2007
Not High; Still Mighty
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Danny Shahar 2007-11-14 17:00
Exclusive to STR November 15, 2007 Consider this:
Putting a Price on Injustice
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Danny Shahar 2007-09-16 16:00
Exclusive to STR September 17, 2007
The Bjorn Ultimatum
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Danny Shahar 2007-09-03 16:00
Exclusive to STR September 4, 2007
The Skeptic's Wager
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Danny Shahar 2007-08-08 16:00
Exclusive to STR August 9, 2007
Who Dares Question the Global Warmocaust?
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Danny Shahar 2007-08-05 16:00
Exclusive to STR August 6, 2007
On the Objectivity of Self Ownership
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Danny Shahar 2007-07-31 16:00
Exclusive to STR August 1, 2007 In discussing libertarian philosophy with disciples of the Austrian School of economics, I have repeatedly been confronted with the assertion that self-ownership is a simple fact of reality. Allegedly, to dispute this fact would commit one to an absurd position, and therefore the libertarian ethic is simply a reflection of the nature of human existence. We will...

 

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