July 17, 2012
Exploitation, Crony Capitalism, and the State
Everybody knows what Marx thought about capitalism and exploitation. But if you think that a powerful state is the solution to the problem of exploitation, perhaps you ought to familiarize…
Month: July 2012
July 17, 2012
Your Character, Sire, Is a Constitution of Liberty
Jesse Walker has a nice discussion of the Farrant/McPhail/Berger paper on Hayek and Pinochet.
July 16, 2012
When Spontaneous Orders Attack
Sometime BHL guest blogger Charles Johnson’s essay “Women and the Invisible Fist” is the first round in a Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order over at Center for a Stateless Society….
July 16, 2012
Coercion in Employment: Putting the Concept of Coercion to Work
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution from Scott Anderson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Scott’s not a libertarian, but he’a friend and a good…
July 12, 2012
Marriage Equality Unbound
Of possible interest to the Bleeding Heart Liberverse: my review at Reason.com of Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. An excerpt: For Brake, marriage not only should…
July 12, 2012
Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs
Our recent series of discussions on libertarianism and workplace coercion has led me to formulate yet another distinction among types of BHLs. Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs. One way to…