November 11, 2016
Healing Through Decentralization
Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. He was elected in perhaps the most polarized election of the last 100 years. We have, more and more,…
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July 15, 2016
Religious Toleration Generalized: A Quick Case for Public Reason Liberalism
I’m busy writing a book defending public reason liberalism, which explains my blogging hiatus. J can blog and write books at the same time; that has proven hard for me. So I’ll…
May 30, 2016
The Costs of Immigration Are the Price of Liberalism
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo Our first post in this series argued that freedom of immigration is on a par with other important liberal freedoms like occupational choice and…
May 25, 2016
Immigration and Self-Determination
(by Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo) As we noted in our previous post, there is a tension between liberalism and immigration restrictions. Why? Well, immigration restrictions interfere with important liberties,…
May 23, 2016
Liberalism or Immigration Restrictions, But Not Both
(by Christopher Freiman & Javier Hidalgo) We recently published an article in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy titled “Liberalism or Immigration Restrictions, But Not Both.” We argue for a…
April 20, 2016
Trivial Rights Infringements: They’re Not Just A Problem For Libertarians
As discussed before on BHL, David Sobel offers a powerful objection to self-ownership. If we may not infringe on a person’s self-ownership rights, then a huge number of seemingly innocuous…