April 04, 2013
A couple of updates
on my post about Landsburg, one on the University of Rochester’s position and one on why not to try to answer his questions framed in his way.
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April 03, 2013
Ugh.
Soi-disant “libertarian” Steven Landsburg is in the news for a simple-minded and clearly-supposed to-be-show-off-ily-“brave”-and-“provocative” hypothetical about rape that compares it to being “penetrated” by photons, and the psychic cost of…
September 29, 2012
Welfare: Who Cares?
Some BHL types seem to think that welfare matters for its own sake. Recently, Kevin suggested that rights are justified by an appeal to the welfare interests they protect. On…
June 14, 2012
Free Market Fairness: John Rawls or J. S. Mill?
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium,…
May 30, 2012
We are Statists in Classical Liberal Clothing
At Politics & Prosperity, the author (read his bio here) writes: The BHL proponents of “social justice” are intelligent and clever persons. They know what they are doing by wrapping their…
May 06, 2012
David Friedman on Social Justice and Utilitarianism
One of the themes in my recent conversation at Cato Unbound with David Friedman was whether utilitarianism or social justice is a better concept for thinking about the moral obligations…