July 07, 2012

Cruelty and power

I’m mostly offline for a while so I won’t be taking part in the labor discussions for a while yet. I haven’t had time to properly think about Kevin Vallier’s…

July 06, 2012

Josh Chafetz Defends Academic Con Law

Before the ACA decision, I wrote this cynical take on academic con law. Josh Chafetz at Cornell Law School sent me the following reply in an email, which he gave…

July 05, 2012

Denmark vs. France: On Worker Liberation

From the Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom: DENMARK: Property Rights 90.0 Business Freedom 99.1 Labor Freedom …

July 01, 2012

The Supreme Court Decision, Freedom of Contract, and Federalism

Let us assume that the health-care individual mandate violates a moral right, freedom of contract. If so, non-lawyers may find it mildly surprising that Sebelius was not about freedom of contract….

June 30, 2012

The Obamacare Ruling – A Libertarian Call to Rise

OK, so the Supreme Court largely upheld Obamacare. Most libertarians are unsurprised. Some more pragmatic libertarians are terribly disappointed by the ruling, but a minority – and I’m one of…

June 27, 2012

Should Hate Speech Be Illegal?

NYU Philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Waldron thinks so. That’s the subject of his new book, The Harm in Hate Speech. He summarizes the view in this short video. Thoughts BHLers?…