April 30, 2012
Zeroing In on “Social Justice”
In an earlier post, I gave the following generic definition of social justice: Social justice is a moral standard by which some people judge political and economic institutions. Advocates of…
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April 30, 2012
The Conversation at Cato Unbound
My final contribution to the conversation at Cato Unbound is now up. Here, from the Cato Unbound site, is the complete index of the discussion. Peruse at your leisure! Lead…
April 30, 2012
BHL’s & UBI’s
I support a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and I think that other libertarians ought to as well. Earlier, Jason sketched the difference between ‘hard libertarians’ and BHL, but didn’t give…
April 27, 2012
The Evil of Bleeding Heart Libertarianism
Some dude name Todd Seavey thinks bleeding heart libertarianism is evil. See here and here. I’ve read those two posts a few times, and my most charitable reconstruction of his argument…
April 13, 2012
Market Democracy and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: Trivial, Boring, and Empty
I’m a big fan of Tomasi’s new book. However, rather than promote it, I’ll attack it. Worse, for this exercise, I’ll be unfair. I’ll articulate some objections that I believe…
April 13, 2012
Can you sell your future self into slavery?
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of…