July 12, 2012
Marriage Equality Unbound
Of possible interest to the Bleeding Heart Liberverse: my review at Reason.com of Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. An excerpt: For Brake, marriage not only should…
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July 03, 2012
Pete Boettke’s Living Economics
This is the book Pete Boettke was meant to write. If you’re a regular of BHL, you’ll be familiar with the guest-blogging that Pete has done here. Or maybe you…
June 29, 2012
Libertarianism and Good Manners
Etiquette gets a bit of a bad rap from philosophers. Part of the blame, I suspect, has to go to Philippa Foot, whose otherwise excellent article, “Morality as a System…
June 07, 2012
Reading The Ethics of Liberty, Part 1 – Hoppe’s Introduction
I. Rothbard vs. Nozick Hoppe’s lengthy introduction to the 1998 edition of The Ethics of Liberty begins by describing the book as Rothbard’s second magnum opus, the first being Man,…
June 07, 2012
If You Want to Keep Dating Me, You’d Better Let Me Fuck You
Bertram wrote this. Caplan just wrote this.* Caplan employs a common argumentative tactic. The left will often make certain arguments trying to show why we should limit economic liberty. However,…
June 05, 2012
A puzzle about an argument against a thick conception of economic liberty
Hello there, Sorry for the long absence. As my students might say, I’ve had some personal ‘issues.’ Anyway, I am linking to Will Wilkinson’s blog post of an argument by…