[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.] While many Bleeding…
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a ruling that virtually ended more than 30 years of human rights litigation in United States courts. Starting with the landmark Filartiga case, foreigners have…
Fans of BHL’s debates over social justice should find the discussion of the same topic in the Liberty Forum on the Online Library of Law and Liberty worth reading. With…
People often say that BHL violates the “non-aggression axiom.” After all, BHL is in principle okay with certain forms of government-sponsored social insurance schemes, if these turn out to be…
I’ve argued (ad nauseam) that property-owning democracy is bad because it is unworkable and unjust. I shall now argue that it is authoritarian as well. But before I begin, what…
Here, just in time for holiday fun, is some old-fashioned ordinary-language, probably worthless, rumination. It is often said, when criticizing institutions, that such and such political arrangement systematically hurts the…