May 02, 2012
May Day? Pretty Bad
I was not planning to blog about this, but I must take the pen to support Ilya Somin and Jason Brennan against their critics, in particular fellow blogger Roderick Long…
Year: 2012
May 02, 2012
Stop the War on May Day!
I strongly disagree with the suggestion by Jason, Ilya, and others to rename May Day “Victims of Communism” Day. The fact that Communist regimes have attempted to co-opt May Day…
May 02, 2012
Why Not Utilitarianism?
A lot of very smart non-philosophers are attracted to some form of utilitarianism. Some of these people, like Ilya Somin and Mike Rappaport are generally sympathetic to the idea of…
May 02, 2012
Victims of Communism Day
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin writes: May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over…
May 02, 2012
Social Justice: Concept and Conceptions
Between the Todd Seavey mini-bru-ha-ha, the Cato Unbound discussion, our awesome symposium on libertarianism and land, several recent BHL posts, one from Bryan Caplan and one from Ilya Somin, we keep…
May 01, 2012
On Stephen Hicks on BHL
I had intended my first post-grading post to be about inheritance, but that will wait a bit. Instead, I thought it was time I helped defend BHL a bit. Stephen…