Why write an
article on a subject you know nothing about? This is a question that Amia
Srinivasan might usefully have asked herself. She is a Prize Fellow in
philosophy at All Souls College, Oxford, one of the most prestigious academic
positions in the academic world; and her webpage at Oxford
includes several papers of outstanding merit. You would never guess that she is
a serious philosopher, though, from her article “Questions for
Free-Market Moralists” in The New York Times, October 2013. The “free-market moralist” she has
principally in mind is Robert Nozick, the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). If Srinivasan has read this book
at all, the experience appears to have passed her by…..To Read More……
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