February 03, 2012
Charles Taylor at 80
This is a little outside BHL’s writ, but we have a lot of political philosophy readers here, so I’ll just post a link: Charles Taylor at 80, a conference in…
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January 28, 2012
On Inequality
President Obama said in his State of the Union that one of his goals is to reduce wealth inequality, and advocated increased taxes on the rich to do that. His…
January 27, 2012
School Choice
This week is National School Choice Week. School choice is a subject we haven’t really discussed on this blog. But (at least in my own case), that’s a product of a…
January 21, 2012
Myths About My Views on the Myth of the Gender Wage Gap
Thanks to being linked on reddit a few months ago, my LearnLiberty video on the gender wage gap is now close to 300,000 views on YouTube. The video was one…
January 17, 2012
Talk at IEA
I’ll be giving a lecture at the Institute for Economic Affairs a week from today: “Freedom and Pluralism,” 4 January 2012, 6.30pm, IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. It will…
January 16, 2012
Why Libertarianism Needs our Adjective, Jeff Sachs Version
Over the weekend, my good friend Pete Boettke wondered why it was necessary for us to call ourselves “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” when the whole history of classical liberalism (from Smith…