From the monthly archives: January 2012
I’ll be giving a lecture at the Institute for Economic Affairs a week from today: “Freedom and Pluralism,” 4 January 2012, 6.30pm, IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. It will cover some of the ground I’ve talked about on BHL a few times: the complicated relationship between liberalism and state power, and between [...]
Why Libertarianism Needs our Adjective, Jeff Sachs Version
By Steve Horwitz On January 16, 2012 · 148 Comments · In Consequentialism, Current Events, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Social Justice
Over the weekend, my good friend Pete Boettke wondered why it was necessary for us to call ourselves “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” when the whole history of classical liberalism (from Smith forward) is full of thinkers who clearly cared about, for example, the condition of the least well-off. My response was that “yes, that might be [...]
My Daily Caller piece on Ron Paul has drawn some interesting responses, including this one from Brian Doherty over at Reason. Many of these responses raise legitimate issues, and obviously there’s a lot that I couldn’t go into in an 800 word op-ed. So I thought I’d take some [...]
Over at the Daily Caller, I have a short piece up arguing that libertarians should spend less time and energy on the Ron Paul campaign, and more on the long-term project of shaping the culture’s intellectual climate. Comments here or there welcome, though I’ll be more likely to see them here.
Rather than leave them buried in the comments, I thought I would respond to two very good objections to my prior post on same-sex marriage as a new post, especially because I think they are worth preserving as part of the libertarian conversation on the same-sex marriage issue. Both objections are raised in [...]
Some of you might have missed Glenn Greenwald’s essay on Progressives and Ron Paul over the holiday weekend. If so, you should go read it now. It’s one the best pieces I’ve seen from Glenn, and he’s written a lot of great pieces.
Here’s the gist. Ron Paul makes progressives uncomfortable, because [...]
Let me put my cards on the table:
1. In my ideal world, the state would be out of the marriage business.
2. My ideal world will not be achieved any time soon, if ever.
3. In the world that exists, where the state is involved in marriage, I believe that:
a. The Constitution requires [...]
Matt Z. generously invited me to guest-post here at BHL, so I’ve decided to return his generosity by dumping on the entire enterprise, with love. Perhaps this will somehow turn out to be constructive.
I’m not interested in identifying which among the many kinds of bleeding-heart libertarian I am because I’m not interested in identifying [...]
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