May 28, 2013
Effective Altruism for BHL’s
In Peter Singer’s new TED talk, he tries to answer the question of how to give most effectively. The talk starts with a short summary of his famous argument for…
May 28, 2013
Getting Over Social Justice
Every eight months or so, we seem to go through a bout of philosophical navel-gazing here at BHL. Some of you readers really dig that stuff, and, truly, God bless…
May 27, 2013
Liberty Links
Roy Childs – “Tyranny is Here, and Submission is a Crime!“ The conversation at Liberty Matters on Molinari and anarchism continues with more from David Friedman, Roderick Long, David Hart,…
May 25, 2013
Fearing Freedom
James Buchanan was one of the most philosophical economists of his generation, and he had a deep commitment to the classical liberal world-view. But he also identified serious challenges that…
May 24, 2013
Lebar v. Vallier on Social Justice and More
Friend of the blog, Mark Lebar (here) thinks Kevin’s response to David Friedman regarding social justice is basically misguided. Mark accurately claims that “if the concept of social justice is…
May 22, 2013
Specificity and Overspecificity about “Social Justice”
I’ve hard a hard time understanding why David Friedman and a few other commentators (e.g., Ryan) are so resistant to the account of “social justice” I’ve given. I think I’ve…