From the monthly archives: February 2012
While writing the section on free immigration for my forthcoming book, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I posted this as my Facebook status: “If you claim to care about the poor and support social justice, but you are not in favor of open immigration, I do not have to and do not take you [...]
So, it turns out that Bryan Caplan isn’t a bleeding heart libertarian either.
Unlike Will, though, Bryan’s problem isn’t with the libertarianism of BHL, but with its bleeding heart. Bryan, you see, doesn’t think we have much in the [...]
Contractualism
By Kevin Vallier On February 15, 2012 · 48 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Consequentialism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
I think the right political theory is some form of contractualism. In this post, I will explain what I mean by contractualism and address some common but confused objections to it. I will partly summarize the main points in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Contractualism, Contractarianism and
Gary Chartier on Reason TV
By Matt Zwolinski On February 14, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Current Events, Left-libertarianism
Our very own Gary Chartier recently did an interview with Reason TV about his new book, Markets Not Capitalism. You can watch it here.
And after you’re done, go ahead and get a copy of that book. It is an absolutely terrific collection of [...]
For those of you who are interested, here’s CATO Institute’s final legal brief in the upcoming Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of the individual mandate (the link is to a summary, but you can click below that to the actual brief.) My prediction, for what it’s worth, is that the Supreme Court [...]
Political Philosophy’s Fundamental Question
By Kevin Vallier On February 13, 2012 · 34 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In this post, my aim is to identify political philosophy’s fundamental question. Yes, I want to attempt this in a blog post, so my answer will undoubtedly be radically incomplete. But I believe I can sketch a brief case for why the social contract theorists got it right. If we understand why, I [...]
Today would have been the 80th birthday of one of my deepest intellectual heroes and a man whose optimism about the future of humanity has become part of my intellectual DNA. I speak, of course, of the irreplaceable Julian Simon. Rob Bradley offers a really nice appreciation here. I will only add that [...]
Twelve Theses on Libertarian Eudaimonism
By Roderick Long On February 10, 2012 · 40 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Consequentialism, Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Social Justice
Obviously each of these following steps would need more explication and defense than I’m giving here. The picture is also a bit oversimplified, since (for one thing) it concerns reciprocal determination between just two virtues rather than among them all. But it will help to fill in a bit the picture I sketched in my [...]
I am teaching a course this term which is basically an examination of modern libertarian political philosophy and political theory for PhD students in economics. But, I am also teaching an advanced topics course in economic theory for PhD students this term. In the first course, we have so far discussed the evolution of the [...]
I thought it might be useful to revisit the ongoing discussion about what makes for a Bleeding Heart Libertarian. In this post, I offer a case that I think will separate a Strong BHL from traditional self-ownership libertarians. A Strong BHL holds that a substantial part of the justification of libertarian institutions is [...]
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