October 17, 2013
This Post is an Abomination Unto Nuggan
I recently spent a long weekend in Seattle talking about Milton (the poet, not the economist) with friends and colleagues. (This is how I have fun. Don’t judge me.) The…
Author: Sarah Skwire
August 27, 2013
There is no Second Law
The other night I was watching Burn Notice, my favorite spy show. Our long suffering protagonist Michael Westen had just found out that after he spent 7 long seasons trying…
July 22, 2013
The Solemnization of Marriage: Or, My Mom the Felon
The state has a long history of involving itself in the spiritual practices of its citizens. The English Reformation, the time period with which I am the most familiar, is…
June 11, 2013
A Few Simple Questions
I spent last weekend at the inaugural conference of a new organization for libertarian women called Libertia. We talked about a lot of different things, but a topic we kept…
May 29, 2013
Policing Facebook: Some BHL Thoughts
CO-AUTHORED WITH SARAH SKWIRE (Trigger warning: while this post discusses violence against women only in general terms, some of the links contain graphic images.) A headline at CNN this afternoon…
May 21, 2013
Liberty is Personal
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Rudyard Kipling Recent research has done a great deal to remind us that, as a species,…