February 19, 2015
Parental Rights and the Obligation to Care
Murray Rothbard famously argued that parents have the right to neglect or abandon their children because they have acquired no obligation to care for them. In my forthcoming book, I…
Author: Steve Horwitz
February 02, 2015
Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America
That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…
October 30, 2014
Crony Capitalism, Inequality, and the Zombie Apocalypse
BHL readers might enjoy two things of mine that came out today. The first is my monthly column “The Calling” at the Future of Freedom Foundation that addresses the ways…
September 11, 2014
More on Libertarianism and Race
Over at the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch, I have some thoughts on how libertarianism might be able to get around the left-right logjam in talking about race, especially in light…
September 04, 2014
When Fear of Victim Blaming Leads to More Victims
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed (may be gated) has a long piece on the connection between student alcohol use and campus sexual assault. Those of us in the trenches, especially with first-year…
August 30, 2014
CFP: Spontaneous Order in Economic and Political Thought from Smith to Hayek and Beyond
CALL FOR PAPERS The interdisciplinary journal Cosmos+Taxis is issuing a call for papers for its second conference on spontaneous orders, to be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology from…