April 07, 2014
Democratic Governments Can’t Oppress Us Because the Government Is Us!
(Meme by Matt Zwolinski) I know Salon only employs fools and knaves, but I did not expect to see them publish something as silly as this: Rand Paul’s brand of…
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December 19, 2013
The Minimum Wage Increases Employment, Totes Magotes!
For real, people, it does. See this article here. My goodness, the article I link to above is a almost a parody of ideological claptrap. It makes it sound as…
October 23, 2013
A Knock-Down Argument against the Free Market
I have to announce today my apostasy from bleeding heart libertarianism. As of now, I am a bleeding heart socialist instead. You see, I recently became aware of a knock-down…
September 30, 2013
Ilya Somin: Democracy and Political Ignorance
Democracy is a political system that empowers the masses, but at the same time incentivizes them (regardless of whether they have selfish or altruistic preferences) to be ignorant and irrational…
August 07, 2013
Property-Owning Democracy Reviewed
As regular BHL readers know, I did a big series of blog posts on Rawlsian property-owning democracy last November. My criticisms were a response to some articles on property-owning democracy…
July 22, 2013
Announcement: Symposium on Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
We are very excited to announce another book symposium. Starting August 12th we will be discussing Michael Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority. As many of you will know, Huemer’s book includes a…