April 05, 2013
What is a Fair Price for a Kidney?
Libertarians often claim that a just price is whatever people are willing to pay in the absence of force or fraud. So, if sweatshop workers are willing to sell their…
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April 01, 2013
A Little More on Social Justice
Fans of BHL’s debates over social justice should find the discussion of the same topic in the Liberty Forum on the Online Library of Law and Liberty worth reading. With…
April 01, 2013
Libertarianism and Pollution
Over at Libertarianism.org, my latest post discusses the implications of Rothbardian-style libertarianism for the issue of pollution. Short version: if libertarianism means adhering to an absolutist version of the Non-Aggression…
March 29, 2013
The Challenging, Radical Anti-Statism of the Ancient Israelites
I’ve recently finished reading the great political theorist Michael Walzer’s book In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Walzer’s thesis is that the Biblical writers were “not very interested…
March 27, 2013
Koppl on Income Inequality
At ThinkMarkets, Roger Koppl argues that Income Inequality Matters. Some excerpts: The surprise should be that we pro-market types have not spoken up more on this central issue, thereby letting…
March 26, 2013
Our Common Humanity in Death and Marriage
As the Supreme Court takes up the same-sex marriage issue, I wanted to re-post an old blog post of mine from Liberty and Power back in September of 2008. Not…