March 23, 2011
Critical Reasoning & Eudaimonia (Responses to my 3/15 post, Part I)
My post of 3/15 (Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway) elicited quite a few comments. I’ve been slow about it, but my response will take the…
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March 18, 2011
More from Carden on Libertarianism and the Poor
Last week, Art Carden wrote an article at Forbes about Libertarian Compassionomics. I wrote a brief response to it here, and there was a lively conversation in the comments thread. Shortly…
March 17, 2011
Two Links
Here are a couple of links of liberaltarian interest: – Radley Balko at Reason Magazine on forensics reform. If you're not already following Radley's work, you should be. His journalistic…
March 16, 2011
Inequality and Nozickian Historical Justice
I’d like to summarise here a point I make at greater length in my piece “Left-Libertarianism, Class Conflict, and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice.” In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert…
March 16, 2011
Symbolic Politics is Morally Repugnant
In textbook neoclassical economics, the minimum wage is expected to cause unemployment among the least productive workers. Various economists from a wide range of ideological backgrounds dispute this. Perhaps I…
March 15, 2011
What’s Important vs. What’s Interesting
Here are some policy areas where classical liberals or libertarians seem to have a lot of common ground with those on the political left: • Immigration – Immigration is a…