From the monthly archives: March 2012
Justice at a Distance
By Fernando Teson On March 13, 2012 · 49 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Economics, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory, Social Justice
I have not been blogging lately because I’ve been working with Loren Lomasky on a book about global justice. Its provisional title is Justice at a Distance. Here are the main ideas of the book.
1) Our main duty toward distant others is a duty of noninterference with their personal projects. This [...]
Alec MacGillis, Is the South too Republican for Republicans?
Well, here’s one thing to think about. What if the South has become so monolithically Republican that actual conservative proposals and argument of the sort that Santorum and Romney have been offering don’t actually resonate all that much?
Consider: Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi [...]
As many of you know, the Obama administration has decided to force religious organizations to finance health insurance policies which pay for contraception (and sterilization). The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) objects to the policy on the grounds that they regard most uses of contraception as gravely immoral, and that therefore the mandate violates their religious [...]
Workplace Coercion
By Jessica Flanigan On March 12, 2012 · 49 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Exploitation, Left-libertarianism, Rights Theory
Coercion is a really difficult concept to define. When theorists say things like “the workplace is a site of coercion” what does that mean, and what should we do about it? One way of understanding coercion is in a non-moralized way. This strategy says that an act [...]
Bleeding Heart Ideal Theory Libertarianism, Take 2
By Andrew Cohen On March 12, 2012 · 38 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism
Say one had a view about what justice is but did not see justice, as understood on that view, instantiated in the world. Would one conclude that one’s view of justice was mistaken? Not necessarily–else everyone on this blog would have to concede being in error. Our shared view–we have differences certainly, but we also [...]
I’m grateful to the folks at Bleeding Heart Libertarians for affording me space on their site to comment on the dispute between the Koch brothers and the Cato Institute. I’m a big fan of the site, for reasons easy to guess: I was a bleeding heart libertarian before BHLs were cool. And before [...]
Libertarian Hypocrisy?
By Jessica Flanigan On March 7, 2012 · 83 Comments · In Current Events, Libertarianism, Social Justice
Julian Sanchez’s preresignation over the Kochtopus-Cato Kerfuffel has caused some commentators to gleefully point out the ‘hypocrisy’ of Sanchez and other lefty libertarians. Sanchez himself has a terrific take-down of this line of response. Here is my favorite part:
“I realize progressives think libertarianism is just code for uncritical worship of [...]
I am in the midst of finishing off a draft of a paper on Henry Hazlitt for a conference at Duke next month. The conference is on the Economist as Public Intellectual, and what I am doing is reversing that and discussing the case of a Public Intellectual as an Economist. Hazlitt, in my opinion, [...]
Sobel’s New Argument Against Self-Ownership
By Kevin Vallier On March 6, 2012 · 59 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
I thought BHL readers might be interested to learn about two cool new companion papers arguing against the Self-Ownership Thesis (SO) written by philosopher David Sobel. Sobel argues that SO is implausible because it cannot differentiate between normatively significant and normatively insignificant impingements on other people’s bodies. In other words, SO draws the [...]
That the libertarian movement is full of dudes can probably be explained by a number of sociological factors, but there might be a deeper reason that libertarianism doesn’t have more women in the movement. Here I want to address one worry about libertarianism that I’ve heard from some of my feminist [...]
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