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Reason Papers is a peer, blind-reviewed journal appearing annually. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles. Not strictly limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, political, legal, and social/cultural philosophy, we also run essays on aesthetics.

Editor-in-Chief:  Aeon J. Skoble
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Current issue:  Volume 30, available now

All issues are now available for download or on-line reading in the “Archive” section. 

 

Recent contributions of note include:

• Daniel Klein's "Mere Libertarianism"
• War and Liberty special issue
• Tara Smith’s “Money Can Buy Happiness”
• Fred Miller’s “Rationality and Freedom in Aristotle and Hayek”
• Antony Flew’s “Choice and Rationality”
• Chris M. Sciabarra’s “Ayn Rand’s Critique of Ideology”
• Christina Hoff Sommers’ “Feminism and Resentment”

Plus:  Tibor Machan and Eric Mack on individual rights, Nicholas Capaldi on Mill and Hayek, Douglas Rasmussen on perfectionism, Loren Lomasky on Nozick, Douglas Den Uyl on benevolence, Irfan Khawaja on Rasmussen and Den Uyl, Martin Golding on neo-Aristotelianism, Lester Hunt on politics, Mark T. Conard on Nietzsche, Aeon J. Skoble on communitarianism and socialism, and Steven Sanders gives a critique of Randy Cohen.

I am especially grateful to Stephan Kinsella for doing the tedious work of making the PDFs, Objectivist IT expert David Veksler for the site redesign, and Jeff Tucker of the Mises Institute for volunteering to host the site.