March 08, 2012
Koch vs. Cato — A Guest Post by Brink Lindsey
I’m grateful to the folks at Bleeding Heart Libertarians for affording me space on their site to comment on the dispute between the Koch brothers and the Cato Institute. I’m…
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March 07, 2012
Libertarian Hypocrisy?
Julian Sanchez’s preresignation over the Kochtopus-Cato Kerfuffel has caused some commentators to gleefully point out the ‘hypocrisy’ of Sanchez and other lefty libertarians. Sanchez himself has a terrific take-down of…
March 06, 2012
Sobel’s New Argument Against Self-Ownership
I thought BHL readers might be interested to learn about two cool new companion papers arguing against the Self-Ownership Thesis (SO) written by philosopher David Sobel. Sobel argues that SO…
February 29, 2012
A Message from the Elderly
Several of us have sung the praises of Students for Liberty in this space and they are indeed an amazing group of young people who will one day lead this…
February 28, 2012
What About Children?
Say you think that all autonomous people are entitled to make decisions without state interference, even if those decisions are ultimately self-harming. You may then notice that there are a…
February 23, 2012
On Passing Laws and Pointing Guns
Libertarians sometimes take their analogies too far. From the plausible insight that taxation is like forced labor certain respects, they jump to the entirely implausible conclusion that taxation is forced…