September 19, 2015
What’s with Income Inequality?
Many have been surprised by the rapid surge of the issue of income inequality. Thomas Piketty’s book spawned academic and popular interest in the topic. The idea that the main…
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August 29, 2015
A Solution for the Middle East
No region in the world is more afflicted by conflict than the Middle East. Without even touching on the nightmare that is ISIS, consider two issues. The West and Iran…
August 26, 2015
How Krugman Dehumanizes
I’m writing a book tentatively entitled Must Politics Be War? where I argue that publicly justified moral and political institutions allow people who deeply disagree about fundamental matters to live together well in…
August 03, 2015
August Cato Unbound is Now Available
The August Cato Unbound is now up, and the topic is the role of the family in political theory. Friend of BHL Lauren Hall has the lead essay, which is up,…
June 30, 2015
Polygamy is NOT the New Monogamy
[The following is a guest post by Lauren K. Hall, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology.] Christopher Freiman thinks it might be time to legalize polygamy…
June 29, 2015
More on Polygamy
Chris Freiman asks: why not polygamy? For related discusison, see also my 2012 review of Elizabeth Brake’s book on the subject, which advocates extending marital law not only to but…