June 25, 2012
Academic Constitutional Legal Theory is Intellectually Corrupt
The Supreme Court will soon release its decision on ObamaCare. I have no dog in this fight–I have no opinion as to whether it is constitutional or not. (Actually, I…
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June 09, 2012
Why Sweatshop Jobs Are Worth Defending – A Short Response to Long
Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted to get…
June 09, 2012
Why Libertarians Should Oppose Sweatshops
I have no quarrel with Matt’s central thesis – namely, that eliminating sweatshops without changing anything else would be bad for the poor. But I think an analysis of sweatshops…
June 08, 2012
Three Reasons Sweatshops Are Good for the Poor
My newest video at LearnLiberty.org is up now, on sweatshops and the poor. Obviously, there are a lot of complexities that I wasn’t able to go into in a 5…
June 07, 2012
Some news items
First. From the NY Times today: “At the same time that high crop prices are prompting farmers to expand into millions of acres of land once considered unsuitable for farming,…
June 07, 2012
Libertarianism and Private Power
Corey Robin and Chris Bertram have both recently claimed that libertarianism is insufficiently responsive to concerns about private power – especially the power employers wield over their employees. If libertarians…