The Essential Tension

Of potential interest to BHL readers: I have a review of Jacob Levy’s book Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in the newest (October 2015) issue of Reason. (It’s also available online,…

A Fairer One Begins

Ayn Rand has a new novel out. Sort of. Rand’s 1934 play Ideal, about an actress who seeks out six of her fans to discover whether they’re willing to fight…

More on Polygamy

Chris Freiman asks: why not polygamy? For related discusison, see also my 2012 review of Elizabeth Brake’s book on the subject, which advocates extending marital law not only to but…

Liberating Fairness

Of general interest to readers of this blog: over at C4SS, Billy Christmas has a review, from a left-libertarian perspective, of John Tomasi’s book Free Market Fairness.