June 06, 2012
BHL Outreach … To Conservatives?
We BHLers are getting noticed by a wider array of groups (hopefully by more once we kick off Tomasi-fest). It’s exciting in part because we are increasingly setting the terms…
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May 31, 2012
Employee and Employer Rights
Workplace relationships are a big part of most people’s lives. Many of us spend more time with our coworkers than our families, and our relationships with our coworkers have a…
May 23, 2012
The continuing history of bleeding-heart libertarianism
Antoine Claude Destutt de Tracy has a plausible claim to being the first libertarian, if by that word we understand something like the combination of rights theory, consent theory, and…
May 18, 2012
Chartier on the Right to Work
There’s been a bit of discussion in one of our recent comment threads about so-called “right-to-work” laws (RTW). This is a topic we’ve discussed before here. And it’s one about…
May 16, 2012
Hayek on Serfdom and Welfare States
Every once in a while folks in the political corner of the blogosphere start talking about Hayek’s argument in The Road to Serfdom. As Matt Yglesias said Monday, lots of…
May 09, 2012
F. A. Hayek: Enemy of Social Justice and Friend of a Universal Basic Income?
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The…