From the monthly archives: June 2012
OK, so the Supreme Court largely upheld Obamacare. Most libertarians are unsurprised. Some more pragmatic libertarians are terribly disappointed by the ruling, but a minority – and I’m one of them – has emphasized the silver lining. Specifically, Roberts and the dissenters all held that the mandate was unconstitutional under the commerce clause, potentially [...]
Libertarianism and Good Manners
By Matt Zwolinski On June 29, 2012 · 29 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism
Etiquette gets a bit of a bad rap from philosophers. Part of the blame, I suspect, has to go to Philippa Foot, whose otherwise excellent article, “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives,” famously employed etiquette as an example of a set of norms with which we have only trivial [...]
NYU Philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Waldron thinks so. That’s the subject of his new book, The Harm in Hate Speech. He summarizes the view in this short video.
Thoughts BHLers? I’ve got a pretty good idea where our libertarian commentators are going to come down on this issue. How about you [...]
The Supreme Court will soon release its decision on ObamaCare. I have no dog in this fight–I have no opinion as to whether it is constitutional or not. (Actually, I think the law is inconsistent, and so I think there is a compelling legal case for both sides.)
From my perspective as an outsider, most [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Will Wilkinson’s subtle and probing contribution to this symposium asks: how Hayekian is Free Market Fairness? The answer depends in [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
In her fascinating and pyrotechnic contribution to this symposium, “Factual Free Market Fairness,” Deirdre McCloskey [...]
Just a quick PSA before the symposium wraps up in the next few days. Now that the philosophers have had their say, political theorists and political scientists will have a chance to comment on John’s book at APSA.
Foundations of Political Theory
2-41 Author Meets Critics: John Tomasi, Free Market Fairness
Reply to Elizabeth Anderson: Part II, Workplace Democracy
By John Tomasi On June 20, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Democracy, Exploitation, Liberty, Symposium on Free Market Fairness
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Elizabeth Anderson [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Elizabeth Anderson opens her post by laying out the distinctive normative commitments of market democracy. She then announces: [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
I am grateful to Matt Zwolinski and Bleeding Heart Libertarians for hosting this symposium on Free [...]
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