November 14, 2011
Webinar on “Libertarianism and the Left”
This Wednesday, I’ll be giving a web-based lecture to Students for Liberty on the topic of “Libertarianism and the Left.” The talk is aimed at an audience of college-aged, libertarian…
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November 13, 2011
A Premise Questioned
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been working on topics not directly related to the theme of the blog. I am reading G.A. Cohen’s Rescuing Justice and Equality. It…
October 31, 2011
States Must Do Bad
Something a little different from my regular posts. Long ago, Plato asked if we would do better with good rules or good rulers. If we could attain utopia, wherein people…
October 24, 2011
Answering the Left-Libertarian Critique of Sweatshops
Ben Powell and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Business Ethics in which we defend what we take to be the mainstream libertarian position on…
October 17, 2011
Answering the Society Fundamentalist
This is an overly-long post that gets to a simple answer to a question that sometimes comes up in the sorts of discussions we have on this blog. If you…
October 07, 2011
What is the Point of BHL?
After Matt’s recent on-line interviews where he discussed BHL (for example, here–well worth listening to, as is another on Kosmos), I saw numerous comments circulating about the view. Some of…