June 11, 2014
Abolish the (NBA) Draft!
(Disclaimer: this post has nothing to with politics, but as you’ll see, it does connect to issues of fairness and freedom. I’m just hoping that some BHL readers are sports…
Author: Christopher Freiman
May 21, 2014
The Containment Conundrum
I think the strongest argument for limited government is given by public choice economics: well-organized (and often well-funded) concentrated interests will tend to capture political power at the expense of…
May 05, 2014
The Nirvana Approach to Paternalism
As someone who leans utilitarian, I often find myself saying the following: “I support Program P in principle but not in practice.” Paternalistic policies, i.e., policies that interfere with people’s…
April 22, 2014
Inequality or Poverty?
To follow up on Bas’s recent post, I’d like to briefly revisit the most powerful argument for thinking that poverty rather than material inequality per se is what matters morally:…
April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….
March 31, 2014
Vote Markets
Why do even the most enthusiastic defenders of markets stop short of defending a market in votes? After all, the central argument for markets in general applies to vote markets…