June 15, 2013
Liberty or Security?
The recent news about so-called NSA surveillance programs brought back a familiar argument. Liberty and security, we are told, need to be balanced or traded off against each other. People…
Author: Bas van der Vossen
May 31, 2013
More on Bleeding Hearts and Social Justice
As Andrew mentioned, both of us were on a panel about Bleeding Heart Libertarianism this week. Since he has posted his comments, and the blog has recently been buzzing with…
May 09, 2013
Libertarian Human Rights?
Some of my academic work deals with international issues. As a result, I read a lot about the philosophy of human rights. It’s hard to read this literature without noticing…
April 24, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
In my first post, I discussed the argument that there are no natural rights because such rights are too indeterminate. In this post I wish to take up another kind…
April 13, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part I)
For my first few posts, I want to write some things about rights. I plan to write on human rights and on property rights in the future. But first I…