February 14, 2018
National Sovereignty and Immigration
Jay: “I advocate open borders.” Lots of people Left and Right: “What, you don’t believe in national sovereignty?” Jay: “Well, no, but even if I did, invoking national sovereignty doesn’t…
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February 07, 2018
Two Genetic Arguments
Some people think this is a good argument against school vouchers: Vouchers Are Racist 1. Many the people who originally defended school vouchers decades ago did so because they wanted…
February 01, 2018
Political Stability in the Open Society
John Thrasher and I have published an article in the American Journal of Political Science, “Political Stability in the Open Society,” that BHL readers may find of interest. If you’re interested…
September 28, 2017
Libertarianism for Luck Egalitarians
Luck egalitarianism is, roughly, the view that inequalities in life prospects resulting from luck are unjust. (There’s a lot to nit pick about that characterization, but it’s a start.) If…
August 04, 2017
The Rhetoric of Libertarians and the Unfortunate Appeal to the Alt-Right
One of my most clicked-on posts here at BHL was this one on Ron Paul’s newsletters and why they still mattered 20 years after they were published. In that piece,…
August 03, 2017
Hutt on Constitutional Constraints as Protection for the Politically Weak
Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains has been the gift that keeps on giving. Rather than pile on yet another specific error in the book, I want to briefly address one…