September 29, 2012
Welfare: Who Cares?
Some BHL types seem to think that welfare matters for its own sake. Recently, Kevin suggested that rights are justified by an appeal to the welfare interests they protect. On…
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September 28, 2012
Welfare Rights for Libertarians
Libertarians have often opposed what philosophers sometimes call welfare rights, or rights to various goods and serves that promote or safeguard human well-being. These include rights to healthcare and education….
September 26, 2012
Book Announcement: Anarchy and Legal Order
Later this fall, Cambridge University Press will be releasing Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (pre-order on Amazon). Here’s the table of contents: Preface xiii Introduction: Embodying…
August 29, 2012
Freedom of Association Revisited
In my last post, which generated a lot of controversy, I discussed (but did not defend) FIRE’s (apparent) plan to defend the freedom of association rights of religious groups at…
August 16, 2012
Justice: Realized or Guaranteed?
We have discussed at length the differences between bleeding-heart libertarians and liberal egalitarians. Let us assume that both camps agree that political institutions must take centrally into account the plight…
August 15, 2012
An Excellent Essay on Marriage Equality
My Facebook friend Helen Dale, a lawyer in Scotland, has written a very nice legal defense of marriage equality titled “A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage” that won first…