November 20, 2013
Sufficientarian Liberalism
A common thread on this blog is the thought that free markets are preferable to various forms of state intervention if our aims are, not only to achieve prosperity, but…
November 20, 2013
What Can Hayek Teach Us About Race?
[Editor’s Note: The following essay was written by James Padilioni Jr. as part of BHL’s “New Voices” program. James is the North American Vice Chairman of Students for Liberty, and a Ph.D student in…
November 19, 2013
What is “Voluntary”? What is “Coercive”?
A video of a lecture I gave at MTSU. It’s long (almost an hour) but this is one of my favorite lectures to give. And the MTSU folks did a…
November 18, 2013
Welcome, Mike Munger!
He’s an actor. A podcaster. A blogger (twice over!). And in his spare time, he heads up the program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Duke University. He’s Mike…
November 15, 2013
Spontaneous Order, Language, and Social Justice
The major libertarian argument against social justice goes as follows: The Spontaneous Order Argument: The distribution of goods, wealth, and opportunities on a free market is not the product of…
November 14, 2013
Schmidtz on First Possession and Xenophobia
Just as we don’t do a lot of just-a-link posts around here, we don’t do a lot of just-a-quote posts, either. But as I was preparing for class today, I…