February 13, 2012
Legal Brief In Health Care Law Case
For those of you who are interested, here’s CATO Institute’s final legal brief in the upcoming Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of the individual mandate (the link is to…
Year: 2012
February 13, 2012
Political Philosophy’s Fundamental Question
In this post, my aim is to identify political philosophy’s fundamental question. Yes, I want to attempt this in a blog post, so my answer will undoubtedly be radically incomplete….
February 12, 2012
Remembering Julian Simon
Today would have been the 80th birthday of one of my deepest intellectual heroes and a man whose optimism about the future of humanity has become part of my intellectual…
February 10, 2012
Twelve Theses on Libertarian Eudaimonism
Obviously each of these following steps would need more explication and defense than I’m giving here. The picture is also a bit oversimplified, since (for one thing) it concerns reciprocal…
February 08, 2012
On the Relationship Between Economics and Philosophy
I am teaching a course this term which is basically an examination of modern libertarian political philosophy and political theory for PhD students in economics. But, I am also teaching…
February 08, 2012
Social Justice vs. Self-Ownership: The Case of Libertarians Great and Small
I thought it might be useful to revisit the ongoing discussion about what makes for a Bleeding Heart Libertarian. In this post, I offer a case that I think will…