August 28, 2014
Libertarians and the Conversation on Race
My monthly “The Calling” column over at the Future of Freedom Foundation might be of interest to BHL readers. I argue that libertarians should be part of the ongoing conversation…
Author: Steve Horwitz
August 20, 2014
Unorganized Play, Ostrom Moments, and the Smoothing of Social Interaction
Libertarian social media have been all atwitter this afternoon with a Lenore Skenazy post at Reason that reports the results of a Reason-Rupe poll showing that: A whopping 83 percent…
August 14, 2014
Parenting Failure and Government Failure
Adam Gurri has raised a number of good points about Andrew’s post, and I want to offer some remarks of my own. Some of these are versions of points I…
August 03, 2014
Hut, Hut, Hayek!
Tonight’s Hall of Fame exhibition game marks the beginning of US football season (the crazy Canadians are already underway, what with their ice-cold summers and 110 yard [why not meters?]…
July 23, 2014
A Qualified Defense of Goldbuggery and Some Related Observations on the Regressive Effects of Inflation
In my recent post responding to Matt Yglesias on the gold standard, at least one commenter was surprised to find a defense of “goldbuggery” here at BHL. I’m guessing this…
July 17, 2014
Yglesias on the Gold Standard
In a column at Vox yesterday morning, Matt Yglesias gave us 7 reasons to think a gold standard is a terrible idea. They are not all completely wrong (a low…