January 02, 2012
Why I’m Not a Bleeding-Heart Libertarian
Matt Z. generously invited me to guest-post here at BHL, so I’ve decided to return his generosity by dumping on the entire enterprise, with love. Perhaps this will somehow turn…
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December 17, 2011
Why I am a Bleeding Heart Libertarian
I wouldn’t have written such a self-centered post but for the fact that Matt listed me as the main exemplar of contingent (“weak”) BHL –the view that support for libertarian…
December 07, 2011
Our Family: A Possible Taxonomy
I’ve been delaying posting this for a while, but its time. Its a perhaps idiosyncratic view of where BHL fits into the set of political philosophies nearest to it (in…
November 29, 2011
Dear Left: Corporatism Is Your Fault
I’m not usually one for polemics. But sometimes polemics is called for. Here goes. Dear members of the moderate left, America is suffering from rampant, run-away corporatism and crony capitalism….
November 19, 2011
More on Talents
This post is a continuation of the long and rich conversation generated by my previous post. Some of the comments below reiterate, perhaps less artfully, some of the points already…
September 21, 2011
Kill the Death Penalty
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that some people deserve to die, it does not follow that the state may be authorized to kill them. For a…