March 31, 2011
Bleeding Heart Libertarianism on NPR
KPBS's These Days did a short interview with me this morning about this blog and the ideas behind it. You can access the audio and (in the next day…
Month: March 2011
March 31, 2011
Why Not Capitalism?
Following up on my summary of Cohen's Why Not Socialism?. I'll express one objection to Cohen here, though I have others. Imagine we all go on a camping trip together….
March 31, 2011
Two Concepts of Justice
When I look at the way people talk about justice, I see that they tend to fall into two broad camps: 1. Justice as a Set of Ideals: …
March 31, 2011
Discerning Desert
Since my last post on the subject, Bryan Caplan has put up two very interesting posts over at EconLog about the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor. The issue…
March 30, 2011
For shame, Mackinac
This isn't really a bleeding-heart point. But BHL is the highest-profile libertarian place I have access to for the following: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, one of the most…
March 30, 2011
What is Social Justice?
In a few of my early posts on this blog, I claimed that libertarianism is compatible with a commitment to some kind of social justice. But I was deliberately vague about just…