October 04, 2011
Tuesday Links
An podcast I did with Kosmos Online about Bleeding Heart Libertarianism is online here. I was able to get into a bit more depth about some key philosophic issues here than in…
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October 01, 2011
Objections to the Simple Libertarian Argument for Environmental Regulation
As I mentioned in a previous post, there’s a simple argument, consistent with hard-core deontological, self-ownership libertarian principles, that gets you to the conclusion it’s at least permissible for the…
September 26, 2011
A Simple Libertarian Argument for Environmental Regulation
Libertarians are often very hostile to environmental regulation. Why? Reflecting on the argument below should help us understand their grounds and whether the grounds are any good. 1. Pollution and…
September 19, 2011
Communism, Anarchism, and Counter-Examples
Suppose there was a political ideology that promised to liberate the working masses from the evils of alienation and exploitation, and deliver them instead unto a social order characterized by…
September 14, 2011
The Libertarian Three-Step Program
Wolf Blitzer: You’re a physician, Ron Paul, so you’re a doctor. You know something about this subject. Let me ask you this hypothetical question. A healthy 30-year-old young man has…
September 13, 2011
The Libertarian Critique of Distributive Justice
There’s a common argument that libertarians make against the idea of social or distributive justice. The argument, made by both Robert Nozick and Friedrich Hayek, purports to show not merely…