Which Countries are the Most Free?

Peter Jaworski comments here. http://www.thevolunteer.ca/2011/03/canada-is-free-the-u-s-is-mostly-free/ When the Heritage Institute measures economic freedom, the US comes out lower many other states, including Switzerland, Denmark, and Canada. Now if you make a…

Why We Don’t Agree

The remarkable truth of this conversation between bleeding heart libertarians and progressives is that our disagreement is exclusively empirical. If we all agree that political institutions should be arranged to…

Advocating vs. Caring vs. Helping

I recently discussed whether libertarians are “callous”. In my first post, I said I am a neoclassical liberal, not a libertarian, in part because social justice plays a prominent role…

Liberalism

In earlier posts, Jason nicely laid out a variety of forms of philosophical liberalism and Jacob nicely indicated a difference between the philosophical and political.  Here, I'd like to briefly lay out…