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…
Author: Fernando Teson
February 06, 2012
Libertarianism, Consequentialism, and Self-Ownership
1) Consequentialist Considerations Are Crucial for Libertarians In a recent post, Kevin Vallier suggests that libertarianism cannot be justified by either utilitarianism or self-ownership. The first is said to be…
January 28, 2012
On Inequality
President Obama said in his State of the Union that one of his goals is to reduce wealth inequality, and advocated increased taxes on the rich to do that. His…
December 31, 2011
Libertarianism and Morality
I intend these comments as a friendly amendment to Matt’s thoughtful post. What implications, if any, does adherence to a political libertarian principle have for other moral issues? The libertarian…
December 17, 2011
Why I am a Bleeding Heart Libertarian
I wouldn’t have written such a self-centered post but for the fact that Matt listed me as the main exemplar of contingent (“weak”) BHL –the view that support for libertarian…
October 07, 2011
On the Wall Street Protests
These protests raise an interesting philosophical puzzle, identified by my friend and co-author Guido Pincione of the University of Arizona. If someone asks me if I support the protesters (assuming…