April 03, 2011
Libertarians, Argentina, and Labor Unions
I write with some trepidation. I come from a country, Argentina, which circa 1920 was the seventh richest country in the world. It boasted a booming economy, one of the…
Author: Fernando Teson
March 27, 2011
Social Parasitism
Here’s another issue that may divide libertarians from progressives. It is prima facie wrong to live off the productive efforts of others. That is, other things being equal, being productive…
March 19, 2011
What Justification for the Libyan War?
The United States is at war in Libya. Surely there's a lot to say, but I wish to focus on the question of justification. The public, I think, tends to…
March 15, 2011
War and Liberty
As is well known, the issue of war creates divides that cut across liberal, conservatives, and libertarian ranks. Here I wish to focus on libertarian attitudes toward war. Most libertarians…
March 13, 2011
Why We Don’t Agree
The remarkable truth of this conversation between bleeding heart libertarians and progressives is that our disagreement is exclusively empirical. If we all agree that political institutions should be arranged to…
March 10, 2011
Social Justice or Big Government?
Everyone seems to agree that progressives care about social justice, and the conversation has so far been about the different ways in which libertarians, too, care about social justice. But…