March 07, 2012
Question to the Non-Ideal Theorists of Justice — What Do You Think of Henry Hazlitt?
I am in the midst of finishing off a draft of a paper on Henry Hazlitt for a conference at Duke next month. The conference is on the Economist as…
Year: 2012
March 06, 2012
Sobel’s New Argument Against Self-Ownership
I thought BHL readers might be interested to learn about two cool new companion papers arguing against the Self-Ownership Thesis (SO) written by philosopher David Sobel. Sobel argues that SO…
March 05, 2012
A Feminist Libertarian Dilemma
That the libertarian movement is full of dudes can probably be explained by a number of sociological factors, but there might be a deeper reason that libertarianism doesn’t have more…
March 03, 2012
Hey, We’re a Year Old!
Bleeding Heart Libertarians is one year old today! When we started this blog a year ago, we never imagined it would take off in the way it did. In…
February 29, 2012
A Message from the Elderly
Several of us have sung the praises of Students for Liberty in this space and they are indeed an amazing group of young people who will one day lead this…
February 29, 2012
Helping the Poor Is Not Intuitive
In his new book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman illustrates a lesson of central importance to bleeding heart libertarians: that if you want to help the poor, trusting your intuitions…