April 03, 2011
Libertarians, Argentina, and Labor Unions
I write with some trepidation. I come from a country, Argentina, which circa 1920 was the seventh richest country in the world. It boasted a booming economy, one of the…
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March 31, 2011
Bleeding Heart Libertarianism on NPR
KPBS's These Days did a short interview with me this morning about this blog and the ideas behind it. You can access the audio and (in the next day…
March 30, 2011
What is Social Justice?
In a few of my early posts on this blog, I claimed that libertarianism is compatible with a commitment to some kind of social justice. But I was deliberately vague about just…
March 29, 2011
Other Moral Values (Responses to my 3/15 post, Part IV)
This is the fourth and last post that attempts to respond to comments on my 3/15 post Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway. A reader (Mike…
March 27, 2011
Social Parasitism
Here’s another issue that may divide libertarians from progressives. It is prima facie wrong to live off the productive efforts of others. That is, other things being equal, being productive…
March 25, 2011
Comparative Institutional Evaluation, or How Not to Do Political Philosophy
Consider the following only slightly exaggerated version of an argument that occurs in a lot of political philosophy 1. Institution X is unjust or bad.2. Therefore, X should be abolished or…