July 11, 2013
The GOP Farm Bill
On another note: The Republican-controlled House just passed a Farm Bill that spends more on agricultural subsidies (an especially deplorable form of corporate welfare) than does the Democratic Senate Bill or Obama’s…
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July 11, 2013
Bleeding-Heart Kansas
There’s an article in the Washington Post on the… divergence of views and attitudes among libertarians with respect to the Civil War. Our own Steve Horwitz is quoted. There’s a…
June 18, 2013
We Should Not Intervene in Syria
As some of you may know, I have long argued that humanitarian intervention is morally and legally permissible (see here). I stand by those arguments, and that is why I…
June 15, 2013
What Global Justice Should Be About: A Preview
Here are the projected introductory paragraphs of the book we have (almost!) completed with Loren Lomasky: What do we owe distant others? In this book we offer a simple answer…
June 15, 2013
Liberty or Security?
The recent news about so-called NSA surveillance programs brought back a familiar argument. Liberty and security, we are told, need to be balanced or traded off against each other. People…
June 11, 2013
A Few Simple Questions
I spent last weekend at the inaugural conference of a new organization for libertarian women called Libertia. We talked about a lot of different things, but a topic we kept…