Posts by: Daniel Shapiro

Some links on the public emergency exception to Miranda warnings

By On May 1, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Current Events, Liberty, Links

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, was not read his Miranda rights until a few days after he was arrested. Here are two excellent articles which explain the origin of this exception, why it is a dangerous idea, and how the Obama administration has expanded this exception.

By Emily [...]

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Query For Left-Libertarians

By On November 11, 2012 · 37 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Symposium on Left-Libertarianism

I am puzzled by left-libertarianism’s prediction that a freed market will not contain a significant amount of “bossism,” to use Gary Chartier’s phrase in his BHL post. Alas, I have not read Markets, Not Capitalism, and perhaps the puzzle is something that is easily solved by reading the book. I offer the puzzle here because [...]

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A puzzle about an argument against a thick conception of economic liberty

By On June 5, 2012 · 14 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism, Liberty

Hello there,
Sorry for the long absence. As my students might say, I’ve had some personal ‘issues.’
Anyway, I am linking to Will Wilkinson’s blog post of an argument by Samuel Freeman in his paper “Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions” Will’s blog post can be found here: http://bigthink.com/ideas/40584?page=all and [...]

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Comparative Institutional Evaluation, or How Not to Do Political Philosophy

By On March 25, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism

Consider the following only slightly exaggerated version of an argument that occurs in a lot of political philosophy

1. Institution X is unjust or bad.
2. Therefore, X should be abolished or reformed.

What's wrong with this? Well, two things, actually, which I describe below.

First, identifying some feature(s) of X as bad or unjust doesn't [...]

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Libertarian-compassionomics

By On March 11, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism

Just thought I'd let you all know this excellent piece by Art Carden was inspired by our blog. Fits in well with Andrew Jason Cohen's recent post.

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/03/11/libertarian-compassionomics/

 

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Overlapping Consensus Libertarianism or Why Convergence Arguments Are Cool

By On March 9, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Libertarianism

 

Hello blog readers. Like my fellow bloggers I am stunned and grateful for the attention our blog has generated. I am also tickled that my suggestion for the name of the blog was chosen.

Many people wonder about and are concerned about the foundations or justification of libertarianism or classical liberalism. My view is [...]

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