May 29, 2013
Policing Facebook: Some BHL Thoughts
CO-AUTHORED WITH SARAH SKWIRE (Trigger warning: while this post discusses violence against women only in general terms, some of the links contain graphic images.) A headline at CNN this afternoon…
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May 21, 2013
Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.) In a number…
May 21, 2013
Liberty is Personal
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Rudyard Kipling Recent research has done a great deal to remind us that, as a species,…
May 14, 2013
Libertarians and Human Rights
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment….
May 13, 2013
On Robin’s Tenuous Connection between Nietzsche and Hayek
The Nation has just published a piece by BHL’s old friend Corey Robin where Robin tries to draw a significant connection between Austrian economics’ view of economic value and Nietzsche’s…
May 01, 2013
Some links on the public emergency exception to Miranda warnings
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, was not read his Miranda rights until a few days after he was arrested. Here are two excellent articles which explain…