July 24, 2012
Obama’s “you didn’t build that!”: A Long Pedigree
I am somewhat surprised by the reaction to the view expressed by Barack Obama, that successful people don’t deserve (all or much of the) credit for their success. Critics acted…
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July 20, 2012
When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 2
The second installment of the C4SS Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order continues with my contribution, Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power. Summary: while spontaneous-order mechanisms are often…
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….
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 10, 2012
Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment
Advocates of free markets and advocates of worker empowerment often find themselves at odds, as is attested by the current controversy between Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch on the one hand…
July 06, 2012
Why Are Employers So Mean?
Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch have given us a lot to think about in their recent essay at Crooked Timber. There’s a lot I want to say about it. Rather than…