May 07, 2012
Inheritance
I don’t believe the following three arguments are definitive, but I think they are interesting. I have taken them–or the roots of them–from an article on the topic by D.W. Haslett…
Year: 2012
May 07, 2012
Life of Helai (Parody of Life of Julia)
Under President Obama: Three-year-old Helai is at home, learning about Afghani village life from her mother, father, and four older siblings, when a NATO airstrike ordered by Nobel Peace Prize Winner…
May 06, 2012
David Friedman on Social Justice and Utilitarianism
One of the themes in my recent conversation at Cato Unbound with David Friedman was whether utilitarianism or social justice is a better concept for thinking about the moral obligations…
May 04, 2012
Libertarian Arguments from Slavery: Caplan as Exemplar
A slavery argument for libertarianism holds that some non-libertarian property scheme permits actions that bear strong moral analogies to slavery. Since slavery is bad, the property scheme is bad. A…
May 03, 2012
Economics: Who Cares?
Gerald Cohen claims that libertarians are hard deontologists. Libertarians believe everyone is a self-owner, that our rights derive from self-ownership, and that only libertarian political regimes are compatible with our…