Many Facebook friends have linked to this post by Wendy McElroy. She begins, In entry-level philosophy class, a professor will often present a scenario that seems to challenge the students’…
We tell our children that it’s wrong to lie. And, at least when they are young, we do not qualify the statement. We do not tell them that it’s wrong…
If I had one magic power, it would be to force every libertarian who talks about how simple and obvious the non-aggression principle is to read this. And then, if…
A common dispute among libertarians concerns whether justice requires the nation-state or whether justice prohibits it. Minimal-state libertarians (minarchists) argue that justice generally requires a nation-state in order to ensure…
We have discussed at length the differences between bleeding-heart libertarians and liberal egalitarians. Let us assume that both camps agree that political institutions must take centrally into account the plight…
Many of our readers appreciated Elizabeth Anderson’s contribution to this blog a few months back, critical though it was of many key libertarian claims. I did too, though that’s no…