May 28, 2013
Getting Over Social Justice
Every eight months or so, we seem to go through a bout of philosophical navel-gazing here at BHL. Some of you readers really dig that stuff, and, truly, God bless…
Month: May 2013
May 27, 2013
Liberty Links
Roy Childs – “Tyranny is Here, and Submission is a Crime!“ The conversation at Liberty Matters on Molinari and anarchism continues with more from David Friedman, Roderick Long, David Hart,…
May 25, 2013
Fearing Freedom
James Buchanan was one of the most philosophical economists of his generation, and he had a deep commitment to the classical liberal world-view. But he also identified serious challenges that…
May 24, 2013
Lebar v. Vallier on Social Justice and More
Friend of the blog, Mark Lebar (here) thinks Kevin’s response to David Friedman regarding social justice is basically misguided. Mark accurately claims that “if the concept of social justice is…
May 22, 2013
Specificity and Overspecificity about “Social Justice”
I’ve hard a hard time understanding why David Friedman and a few other commentators (e.g., Ryan) are so resistant to the account of “social justice” I’ve given. I think I’ve…
May 22, 2013
Social Injustice as Emergent Property
David Friedman has recently challenged BHLers to clarify our understanding of social justice (also see here). David has expressed some frustration that BHLers have sometimes offered definitions of social justice…