November 28, 2012
Why Property-Owning Democracy?
In this post, following my previous post, I will review the Rawlsian arguments for property-owning democracy (POD) and comment a bit on their structure. In short, POD is required to…
Year: 2012
November 27, 2012
Social Statics Reading Group
Beginning December 10th, in conjunction with the awesome Students for Liberty (old people like it too!), I’m going to be leading an online reading group on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics. It’s going…
November 26, 2012
New Brettschneider Book
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote…
November 26, 2012
Some Principles
Recent events in the Middle East have prompted vigorous exchanges on this site. Definitive judgments regarding these matters depend on detailed historical analysis; and engaging in historical inquiry is not…
November 26, 2012
What is Left-Libertarianism?
David Friedman writes: My problem with BHL is that I have been unable to get its supporters to tell me what it is. Does he really believe that, or is…
November 24, 2012
Libertarianism, Self-Defense, and Innocent Shields
Suppose A is unjustly attacking V, and using I as an “innocent shield.” In other words, A has positioned himself (or I) in such a way as to make it…