June 30, 2015
Left-Libertarians on Marriage Equality
In the spirit of Kevin V.’s post, here’s a sampling of left-libertarian opinion on the Obergefell ruling: Cory Massimino: Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Good Become the Enemy of the…
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June 30, 2015
Polygamy is NOT the New Monogamy
[The following is a guest post by Lauren K. Hall, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology.] Christopher Freiman thinks it might be time to legalize polygamy…
June 29, 2015
More on Polygamy
Chris Freiman asks: why not polygamy? For related discusison, see also my 2012 review of Elizabeth Brake’s book on the subject, which advocates extending marital law not only to but…
June 29, 2015
Indeed, Why Not Polygamy?
Is it time to grant polygamous marriages the same legal recognition as monogamous marriages? I think it is and here’s why: all of the standard objections to polygamous marriage can…
June 25, 2015
Laudato Si′: The Beautiful, the Bad, and the Bulky
Since I cover the religion beat here at BHL, I figure I’ll share my thoughts on Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato Si′, as a Lutheran libertarian with Catholic (specifically Thomistic)…
June 23, 2015
Ilya Somin on Eminent Domain
The recent book by Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: “Kelo v. City of New London” and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a key contribution to the…