March 27, 2012
Libertarianism…Starting Now!
Adam, a Native American, and George, an American of European descent, encounter each other on the street. Adam sees that George is carrying a shiny new Ipad 3. So Adam…
Month: March 2012
March 26, 2012
A Paradox and 2 Sorts of Liberalism
In Kevin’s recent post, responding to Jessica’s prior post, Kevin discusses what he calls “the paradox of toleration.” There are actually multiple paradoxes of toleration. Arguably, the most important of…
March 23, 2012
The 20th Anniversary of Hayek’s Death
Today we pause to note the 20th anniversary of the death of F. A. Hayek, perhaps the most important social thinker of the 20th century and a man whose ideas…
March 23, 2012
Moral Fanaticism and the Hope of Public Reason: A Reply to Flanigan
My friend and co-blogger, Jessica Flanigan, threw down the gauntlet last week over the truth of public reason liberalism, the popular version of liberal political theory that I used to…
March 23, 2012
Hating the State and Loving Liberty
What follows was my weekly column at the Freeman this week and I reprint it here as the subject matter might be of interest to BHL types. Enjoy! Libertarians…
March 22, 2012
Milton Friedman’s Classical Liberalism
Inspired by Pete Boettke’s semi-recent post, I’ve just finished re-reading Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. It is a great work articulating and defending liberalism “in its original sense.” It is…