October 04, 2011
Tuesday Links
An podcast I did with Kosmos Online about Bleeding Heart Libertarianism is online here. I was able to get into a bit more depth about some key philosophic issues here than in…
Author: Matt Zwolinski
October 01, 2011
Objections to the Simple Libertarian Argument for Environmental Regulation
As I mentioned in a previous post, there’s a simple argument, consistent with hard-core deontological, self-ownership libertarian principles, that gets you to the conclusion it’s at least permissible for the…
September 19, 2011
Communism, Anarchism, and Counter-Examples
Suppose there was a political ideology that promised to liberate the working masses from the evils of alienation and exploitation, and deliver them instead unto a social order characterized by…
September 18, 2011
BHL Twits
You Twitter types out there can now follow the blog @BHLBlog. Get instant updates when new posts go up, plus tweets about some of the more interesting responses to our…
September 13, 2011
The Libertarian Critique of Distributive Justice
There’s a common argument that libertarians make against the idea of social or distributive justice. The argument, made by both Robert Nozick and Friedrich Hayek, purports to show not merely…
September 08, 2011
New in the Journals
I’m trying out a new feature on the blog. Since many of our readers are not academics, and since even many academics (myself included!) have a hard time keeping up…