SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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Introduction | ||
1 | Nuts and Bolts (What this Course is about) | |
2 | Some Contemporary Libertarian Controversies | |
Part One: Ideals of Freedom, Autonomy, and Civil Society | ||
3 | Roots of Modern Freedom (I): The Ancient and Medieval Periods | |
4 | Roots of Modern Freedom (II): The Early Modern Period | |
5 | Revolutionary Liberty (I) | |
6 | Revolutionary Liberty (II) | |
7 | Modern Valuations of Liberty as the Ultimate Political and Economic Good (I) | |
8 | Modern Valuations of Liberty as the Ultimate Political and Social Good (II) | |
9 | Complementary or Contradictory Ideals (I): Property | First Reading Response due |
10 |
Complementary or Contradictory Ideals (II): Equality and Distributive Justice Class Debate: John Rawls v. Robert Nozick | |
11 | Complementary or Contradictory Ideals (III): Communitarianism and Civic Republicanism | |
Part Two: Case Studies in the Rise of Modern Liberty / Libertarianism | ||
Slavery and Abolition (Paradoxes of Property and Personal Freedom) | ||
12 | Chattel Slavery and the "Freedom Principle" | Paper 1 due |
13 | Antislavery and Liberty (I) | |
14 | Antislavery and Liberty (II) | Second Reading Response due |
Freedom of the Spirit: Belief, Conduct, and the First Amendment | ||
15 |
The First Amendment Religion Clauses and "Freedom of Conscience" Guest Discussant: Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University | |
16 | The Rise of Free Exercise in Modern America | |
17 | Religious Accommodation and Civil Rights Today | |
From Civil Liberties to Civil Libertarianism | ||
18 | The Creation of the Modern American Civil Liberties Movement | |
19 |
The First Amendment and Free Speech Guest Discussant: Harvey A. Silverglate | |
Part Three: Liberty and the Contemporary Administrative-regulatory State | ||
Counter-terrorism and Health Care | ||
20 | The National Security Agency's Phone Surveillance Program | Paper 2 Outline due (Optional) |
21 |
Obamacare Class Debate: Obamacare | |
The Financial Markets | ||
22 | The Origins of the 2008 Financial Crisis | |
23 | Efficient Markets and the Derivatives Debate | |
Internet Freedom | ||
24 | The Power of Private Regulation | |
25 | Boundaries of the Internet | Third Reading Response due |
26 | The Case of Aaron Swartz | Paper 2 due |