The State as a Necessary Evil

This week’s ‘big idea’ is ‘The State’: Joshua and Ryan talk about mutual protection, whether states need territory, who is on the other side of the breathalyser, and what the French have to learn from giant sea monsters.

Our reading for this week:

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Leviathan (Wikipedia)

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