November 07, 2012
The Conflation Trap
[Editors Note: This essay is part of BHL’s Symposium on Left-Libertarianism. Click on the link to see the other essays.] Left-libertarians differ from the (current) libertarian mainstream both in terms of…
Year: 2012
November 06, 2012
Civic Enemies
In the market, most of my fellow citizens are my civic friends, part of a great cooperative scheme. One of the vile and repugnant features of democracy is that it…
November 05, 2012
The Distinctiveness of Left-Libertarianism
[Editors Note: This essay is part of BHL’s Symposium on Left-Libertarianism. Click on the link to see the other essays.] Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously…
November 05, 2012
The BHL / C4SS Symposium on Left-Libertarianism Begins Today!
Our symposium kicks off in just 30 minutes with Gary Chartier’s introductory essay. Here’s a reminder of what’s to come! — What is “left-libertarianism”? Is it really libertarian? Is it really leftist?…
November 05, 2012
Why It’s Rational (for Some of Us) to Vote
Over 132 million people voted in the 2008 US Presidential election. Why did they do that? Are they just plain stupid? There is a nagging worry that voting is a…
November 03, 2012
My Scholarly Papers on Private Sector Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Since what goes around comes around, my work from a few years back on the private sector response to Hurricane Katrina is of relevance again. Here are the two scholarly…