May 21, 2013
Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.) In a number…
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May 21, 2013
Defining Social Justice, Etc.
[Note: Sorry for the strange lack of paragraph breaks under the fold. I don’t know how to fix this.] David Friedman is worried that the term “social justice” has no…
May 15, 2013
Words of wisdom
I was looking around the website of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, with which many of the BHL bloggers have been affiliated in…
May 14, 2013
Libertarians and Human Rights
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment….
May 09, 2013
Libertarian Human Rights?
Some of my academic work deals with international issues. As a result, I read a lot about the philosophy of human rights. It’s hard to read this literature without noticing…
April 29, 2013
Arneson on Egalitarianism at the SEP
My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of…