Welcome to the Bleeding Heart Libertarians symposium on “Libertarianism and Land!”
The symposium will run from today, Monday April 23rd, through Friday April 27th. Each day of the symposium will feature an essay by one of our lead authors – Eric Mack, Hillel Steiner, Fred Foldvary, Kevin Carson, and David Schmidtz, in that order. Zac [...]
Libertarians believe in self-ownership. But what about the ownership of external resources? Can individuals legitimately acquire permanent bequeathable property rights in land by “mixing their labor” with it? Or does putting a fence around a piece of land and calling it one’s own amount to an act of theft – stealing for oneself [...]
Symposium on Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
I’m thrilled to announce that we here at Bleeding Heart Libertarians will be running a symposium on John Tomasi’s new book, Free Market Fairness, from June 11-15, 2012. Scheduled participants include Elizabeth Anderson, Richard Arneson, Samuel Freeman, Deirdre McCloskey, [...]
Bleeding Heart Libertarians is one year old today!
When we started this blog a year ago, we never imagined it would take off in the way it did. In fact, a fair number of us probably never imagined that we’d see our first birthday.
As it turns out, though, the level and quality [...]
I’m pleased to announce that Jessica Flanigan is going to be guest blogging for BHL for the coming month.
Jessica works on political philosophy and applied ethics. This year she is a ABD at Princeton’s Program in Political Philosophy and a visiting scholar at Brown University. Next semester, she will join the Jepson School of Leadership Studies [...]
I’m very pleased to announce that from April 23-27 of 2012, the Bleeding Heart Libertarian blog will be hosting a virtual symposium on the topic of “Libertarianism and Land!”
The five day event will explore different libertarian perspectives on questions pertaining to the moral justification of and limits on property rights in land. Each day will [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I have a few exciting announcements to make about the blog. The first, of course, was that Steve Horwitz and Kevin Vallier have joined us as full-time contributors. I’ll have another announcement in the coming week.
For now, though, here’s another bit [...]
It’s hard to believe it, but in a little over a month, we’re going to be celebrating the first birthday of this blog! It’s been a great year so far. And I have a series of exciting announcements to make over the next week or so about the future. Stay tuned.
For now, I’m extremely [...]
You Twitter types out there can now follow the blog @BHLBlog. Get instant updates when new posts go up, plus tweets about some of the more interesting responses to our stuff around the web. A couple of us BHLers have individual Twitter accounts too, where we occasionally share material that might be [...]
I’m happy to say that for the next week or so, we’re fortunate enough to have Charles Johnson guest blogging for us. Many of you know Charles from his blog, Rad Geek People’s Daily. But if you don’t, now’s your chance to start reading it!
Charles Johnson is an individualist Anarchist writer [...]
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