April 02, 2014
Does Campaign Finance Buy Power? Results?
Many people are going to be infuriated today. But their fury is based on an unproven, quite possibly false, assumption. USA Today writes: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took another…
April 01, 2014
New Gig at Salon
Salon Magazine frequently features articles about libertarians and libertarianism, but these articles paint libertarianism in the most uncharitable light possible. However, to their credit, the editors genuinely want to produce accurate…
March 31, 2014
Libertarianism and Sex Work- Continuing the Conversation
Sarah and Steve recently highlighted a range of views that libertarians can hold regarding pornography. Their point was that libertarians all hold that pornography should not be illegal, but people…
March 31, 2014
Vote Markets
Why do even the most enthusiastic defenders of markets stop short of defending a market in votes? After all, the central argument for markets in general applies to vote markets…
March 21, 2014
Shearmur on Popper and Hayek
Worth reading throughout; I have some concerns about, say, the public intellectuals/ disciplinary normal science discussion, but I always learn from Shearmur. Of BHL relevance: 3:AM: How does Hayek differ…
March 18, 2014
A worry about basic income
Via Pete Boettke, I see that Don Boudreaux has posted a criticism of the enthusiasm among some libertarians (including some of the BHL co-bloggers) for a basic income: That policy…