To serve and protect? Gruesome video of police murdering an innocent person.

Institute for Justice: Should You Need Permission to Work?

Steve Horwitz on the personhood of corporations. Wilkinson pithy critique here.

And, for fun, here’s V explaining why bad government is your fault.

Over at Cato Unbound, our fearless leader Matt and our onetime guest-blogger John Tomasi write this month’s lead essay, “A Bleeding-Heart History of Libertarianism.” Co-blogger Roderick Long will be one of the respondents.

As is well known, the issue of war creates divides that cut across liberal, conservatives, and libertarian ranks.  Here I wish to focus on libertarian attitudes toward war. Most libertarians oppose foreign wars on the ground that the government does not have the right to use taxpayers’ money to fight for the freedoms of others. [...]

Fernando Tesón writes, in a thread that has generated some useful discussion,  that the disagreement between bleeding heart libertarians and progressives is "exclusively empirical."

Three quick thoughts in response:

I think it's true that the debate is more empirical than many on both sides suppose.  And that's a very good thing.  It's not [...]

Consider this a follow-up to “Advocating vs. Caring vs. Helping”.

 I teach Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” at least once a year. Here’s a brief, stylized summary of the argument. If you saw a drowning child and could easily save her, you’d think you’re obligated to do so, even [...]

Part of the goal of this blog is to encurage dialogue between lbertarians and those on the political left.  I think this important partly because I believe these two groups have more in common that many people realize.  But, of course, there are still areas of divergence.  And those are worth exploring.

So, readers, my [...]