September 05, 2015
Samaritanism and Duties
Singer’s famous example is taken to establish that some acts of Samaritanism are morally required. He writes, “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening,…
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August 26, 2015
History’s Most Successful Anti-Poverty Program
The second view in my new series with Learn Liberty is out (see here for the first). In it, I begin to talk about different ways of addressing the problem…
August 25, 2015
The Essential Tension
Of potential interest to BHL readers: I have a review of Jacob Levy’s book Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in the newest (October 2015) issue of Reason. (It’s also available online,…
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…