When All Else Fails for Christmas

Don’t know what to give the nerd in your life for Christmas?  Then I highly recommend Jason Brennan’s brand-new When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice.  The book is fun, timely, and timeless.  A few highlights:

Or suppose Bane has captured Gotham City.  Now suppose Batman has a plan for defeating Bane – one that has a good chance of success, while the government’s plan is far worse.  In that case, rather than saying that Batman should defer to the government, the go...