March 09, 2011
Can You Be Free on a Desert Island?
From my response to Palmer at Cato Unbound: Palmer says that no matter what happens to a man on a desert island, the man is neither free nor unfree, because…
Month: March 2011
March 08, 2011
Liberalism
In earlier posts, Jason nicely laid out a variety of forms of philosophical liberalism and Jacob nicely indicated a difference between the philosophical and political. Here, I'd like to briefly lay out…
March 08, 2011
The Case of the Missing Callous Libertarians
If you only read academic philosophy discussing orthodox right libertarianism, you might expect that libertarians are callous and indifferent to poverty. Academic philosophers tend to think that self-described libertarians have…
March 08, 2011
Welcome, Roderick Long!
We here at Bleeding Heart Libertarians are extremely pleased to welcome our newest blogger – Roderick Long! Many of you are already familiar with Rod from his blogging at Austro-Athenian Empire….
March 08, 2011
Palmer’s Revisionism
A while back, David Schmidtz and I had a discussion about the concept of liberty with Philip Pettit, John Christman, and Tom Palmer on Cato Unbound. In our essay and book, Schmidtz…
March 07, 2011
Exploitation and Social Justice
A few months ago, the New York Times ran this story about the exploitation of day laborers. According to the study, day laborers are subjected to a variety of harms –…