February 23, 2012
He Had Moves Like Jagger
While flying yesterday, I began a set of readings for a Liberty Fund conference on Bastiat (thanks Matt!). I haven’t read Bastiat in a serious way since grad school. My…
Author: Steve Horwitz
February 12, 2012
Remembering Julian Simon
Today would have been the 80th birthday of one of my deepest intellectual heroes and a man whose optimism about the future of humanity has become part of my intellectual…
January 21, 2012
Myths About My Views on the Myth of the Gender Wage Gap
Thanks to being linked on reddit a few months ago, my LearnLiberty video on the gender wage gap is now close to 300,000 views on YouTube. The video was one…
January 16, 2012
Why Libertarianism Needs our Adjective, Jeff Sachs Version
Over the weekend, my good friend Pete Boettke wondered why it was necessary for us to call ourselves “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” when the whole history of classical liberalism (from Smith…
January 03, 2012
Responses to Two Objections to My Challenge
Rather than leave them buried in the comments, I thought I would respond to two very good objections to my prior post on same-sex marriage as a new post, especially…
January 03, 2012
A Challenge for Libertarians Against Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage
Let me put my cards on the table: 1. In my ideal world, the state would be out of the marriage business. 2. My ideal world will not be achieved…