April 05, 2012
Contract Liberalisms and Their Enemies
Over the last week, I’ve been mulling over our extended discussion of public reason liberalism. In response to Andrew’s post, I thought I’d try to distinguish between contract liberalisms (of…
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April 02, 2012
A Bleeding-Heart History of Libertarianism
Over at Cato Unbound, our fearless leader Matt and our onetime guest-blogger John Tomasi write this month’s lead essay, “A Bleeding-Heart History of Libertarianism.” Co-blogger Roderick Long will be one…
March 27, 2012
Libertarianism…Starting Now!
Adam, a Native American, and George, an American of European descent, encounter each other on the street. Adam sees that George is carrying a shiny new Ipad 3. So Adam…
March 26, 2012
A Paradox and 2 Sorts of Liberalism
In Kevin’s recent post, responding to Jessica’s prior post, Kevin discusses what he calls “the paradox of toleration.” There are actually multiple paradoxes of toleration. Arguably, the most important of…
March 23, 2012
The 20th Anniversary of Hayek’s Death
Today we pause to note the 20th anniversary of the death of F. A. Hayek, perhaps the most important social thinker of the 20th century and a man whose ideas…
March 23, 2012
Moral Fanaticism and the Hope of Public Reason: A Reply to Flanigan
My friend and co-blogger, Jessica Flanigan, threw down the gauntlet last week over the truth of public reason liberalism, the popular version of liberal political theory that I used to…