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Aaron Ross Powell

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Policy Director at the Cato Institute, Editor of Libertarianism.org, and co-host of the Free Thoughts podcast.

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Nov 29, 2018, 8:15 PM UTC

Making the World Better

https://aaronrosspowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/jungwoo-hong-100345-unsplash.jpg If you believe Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu, libertarians are nuts. In a recent commentary, they gave a litany of…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:54 PM UTC

On Assessing Arguments

Let’s say you believe X is true. You know that many smart, well-educated people believe X — including you! — but also that many smart, well-educated people disbelieve X. If you come across what strik…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:25 PM UTC

What Atheism Offers: Justifying a Life’s Purpose

There exists a need among theists to justify life’s purpose. Far from being content with self made goals, with personal achievements set by the individual for his own existential benefit, they desire…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:20 PM UTC

Abandoning Superstition: Why I Don’t Believe In God

If you take a look at the history of ideas from the Enlightenment onward, an unmistakable trend is the steady abandonment of superstition. Weather patterns aren’t caused by raucous spirits. Diseases…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

Why Religious Arguments Don’t Have a Place in Politics

Religion has no place in policy debates. Because of the special nature of faith-based beliefs and values, religious arguments cannot bring anything valuable to the table when discussing the best poli…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:09 PM UTC

Intelligent Design’s Logical Fallacies

The many articles on Newsvine regarding creationism and intelligent design have sparked a good deal of comments from proponents of those views, several expressing the same tired arguments for why cre…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

“The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” by Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism was a random find. I’d returned a handful of books to the library and was looking for something to listen to in the car. The title…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 2:58 PM UTC

Practical Political Philosophy and Will Kymlicka’s Endnote 42

Confusions of the real and the ideal underly far too many policy debates. Libertarians, for instance, often assume perfectly functioning markets and compare them to genuinely (mis)functioning governm…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Oct 19, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

It’s Okay To Kill: A Libertarian Argument for the Death Penalty

For those of us who believe in limited government and the fallibility of human certainty, the death penalty can pose quite a problem. Is it ever okay to kill someone because of his own criminal actio…

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Aaron Ross Powell
@arossp Apr 10, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

What Kind of Libertarian Are You?

My libertarianism’s of an off-the-beaten-path sort, with its intellectual roots among the Ancient Greeks. I was recently asked on Twitter whether my libertarianism is of the consequentialist or deont…

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