May 16, 2012
Hayek on Serfdom and Welfare States
Every once in a while folks in the political corner of the blogosphere start talking about Hayek’s argument in The Road to Serfdom. As Matt Yglesias said Monday, lots of…
Author: Kevin Vallier
May 09, 2012
F. A. Hayek: Enemy of Social Justice and Friend of a Universal Basic Income?
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The…
May 04, 2012
Libertarian Arguments from Slavery: Caplan as Exemplar
A slavery argument for libertarianism holds that some non-libertarian property scheme permits actions that bear strong moral analogies to slavery. Since slavery is bad, the property scheme is bad. A…
May 02, 2012
Social Justice: Concept and Conceptions
Between the Todd Seavey mini-bru-ha-ha, the Cato Unbound discussion, our awesome symposium on libertarianism and land, several recent BHL posts, one from Bryan Caplan and one from Ilya Somin, we keep…
April 17, 2012
BHL, Liberal-tarianism and Complicated Theories: A Reply to Doherty and Seavey
Brian Doherty has written a nice, thoughtful essay, “Can Libertarians Learn to Love Social Justice?” where he reviews some of the recent discussion about BHL and traditional-L over at Cato…
April 12, 2012
Neo-Rawlsian Libertarianism: Two Principles of Justice for Bleeding Hearts
During the recent Cato Unbound discussion on the history of libertarian thought, David Friedman has asked how the “neo-Rawlsian” libertarianism that John Tomasi and Matt Zwolinski (and I) affirm is…