April 22, 2014
Inequality or Poverty?
To follow up on Bas’s recent post, I’d like to briefly revisit the most powerful argument for thinking that poverty rather than material inequality per se is what matters morally:…
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April 21, 2014
Who Owns the Land?
A topical issue in the global justice literature is territory. Mainstream writers have taken the position that collective entities, including states, are the ultimate title holders of land and resources…
April 18, 2014
Crony Capitalism and Crony Communism
Most libertarians have probably had something like the following conversation: COM: “Hey, I’ve got this neat idea for how to make the world a better place. It’s called communism! What do…
April 15, 2014
Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights – A Critique
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, wrote Jerome Tuccille back in 1972, and so it did with me. My first exposure to libertarianism was Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, and it didn’t take long…
April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….
April 09, 2014
On Begging Questions
I think the non-aggression principle is true, but sort of useless in an argument with a non-libertarian. It’s a conclusion, not a premise. Similarly, I think it’s true that we’re…