March 13, 2012
Morning link
Alec MacGillis, Is the South too Republican for Republicans? Well, here’s one thing to think about. What if the South has become so monolithically Republican that actual conservative proposals and…
Author: Jacob T. Levy
February 03, 2012
Charles Taylor at 80
This is a little outside BHL’s writ, but we have a lot of political philosophy readers here, so I’ll just post a link: Charles Taylor at 80, a conference in…
January 17, 2012
Talk at IEA
I’ll be giving a lecture at the Institute for Economic Affairs a week from today: “Freedom and Pluralism,” 4 January 2012, 6.30pm, IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. It will…
December 31, 2011
Some theses
1) Libertarianism (like the liberalism of which it is a subset) is, as such, best understood as a political doctrine, not a comprehensive account of the good life and a…
December 17, 2011
A different distinction
Below, Matt differentiated between “Contingent BHLs” “This group has what might be described as standard right-libertarian views for standard right-libertarian reasons….What makes members of this group bleeding heart libertarians is…
November 01, 2011
Maybe
This post suggests that Elizabeth Warren’s “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own” is a deliciously ironic appropriation of Adam Smith’s insights about economic interdependence…