July 16, 2012
When Spontaneous Orders Attack
Sometime BHL guest blogger Charles Johnson’s essay “Women and the Invisible Fist” is the first round in a Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order over at Center for a Stateless Society….
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July 12, 2012
Marriage Equality Unbound
Of possible interest to the Bleeding Heart Liberverse: my review at Reason.com of Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. An excerpt: For Brake, marriage not only should…
July 09, 2012
Positive Liberties and Legal Guarantees
This is an old post from last year, but it is appropriate again: We often equate freedom with an absence of constraints, impediments, or interference. For instance, you have free…
July 09, 2012
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism…
July 05, 2012
Libertarianism, the Workplace and the Reconciling Power of the Social-Moral Order
I am delighted that Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch (BRG) decided to engage BHL on workplace coercion. For my part, I will be disappointed if this discussion merely…
July 04, 2012
Freedom and Work
Crooked Timber just posted an article that discusses the posts I’ve written about the workplace. I enjoyed reading it (also- these follow ups) and I’ve been thinking about where we…