From the monthly archives: March 2012
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 clubs George over the head with a stick and takes it.
George: “Ow! Give that back!”
Adam: “No.”
George: “But that’s mine! You just took [...]
A Paradox and 2 Sorts of Liberalism
By Andrew Cohen On March 26, 2012 · 21 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Toleration
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 these is what we call “the paradox of liberalism” (remember we are using “liberal” with its classic meaning, not [...]
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 still remain ahead of their time and distorted and misunderstood by the supposed intellectual elite. There are so many great Hayek quotes one could deploy [...]
Moral Fanaticism and the Hope of Public Reason: A Reply to Flanigan
By Kevin Vallier On March 23, 2012 · 73 Comments · In Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Toleration
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 argue against the contraception mandate. This is my reply.
Public reason liberalism (PRL) holds that a coercive law L is justified [...]
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 have a number of public relations problems. Some are the result of people not understanding our ideas. Others, however, are our own fault: [...]
Milton Friedman’s Classical Liberalism
By Matt Zwolinski On March 22, 2012 · 70 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Consequentialism, Economics, Libertarianism
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 also a work that illustrates [...]
I will be passing in a manuscript soon to Oxford University Press for Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. Here is the table of contents as it stands now. I’d be pleased to hear any last-minute suggestions.
Academia is, by my reckoning, a far more liberty-friendly place than it was twenty years ago. But most people probably still have a hard time finding a graduate program with even a single sympathetic classical liberal faculty member.
Thankfully, there’s the Institute for Humane Studies. Because of their seminar programs, even the [...]
A Defense of the Unreasonable
By Jessica Flanigan On March 16, 2012 · 51 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Democracy, Liberalism, Toleration
I really enjoyed Kevin’s recent discussion of the ‘contraception mandate,’ particularly because his posts highlight a deep and important divide in political philosophy that I think merits attention. Kevin sketches the following view about whether a law is justified:
“(The) principle of public justification (PPJ) …holds that a coercive law L is only justified [...]
I was hoping to garner interest with my last post. I consider the contraception mandate an important issue not merely because it is in the news but because the controversy surrounding it drives people to vigorously engage broader philosophical issues.
I think there were three general concerns that merit a detailed response. They [...]
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