March 04, 2013
Liberty Links
Geoffrey Brennan begins a month-long discussion assessing the work the work of James Buchanan. Michael Huemer’s book on the problem of political authority is the subject of this month’s Cato Unbound….
March 03, 2013
We’re Two!
Hey, today is kind of a special day here at Bleeding Heart Libertarians. It’s been exactly two years since our first post went up! So we’re now two years old. Which means,…
March 02, 2013
Explanation is not Justification
The reaction to Sarah’s post on why libertarians don’t seem to put outrage about rape and the institutions that facilitate it and cover it up higher on their priority list…
February 28, 2013
Violating Our Principles
(Trigger warning: While this post does not discuss rapes and assaults in detail, the article linked in the first paragraph does.) On Valentine’s Day, Rolling Stone published an article titled…
February 26, 2013
“When it says Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s on the label label label”
The current online kerfuffle among libertarians (and Horwitz and I had nothing to do with this one!) involves labels. Glenn Beck has recently relabeled himself from conservative to libertarian. Alexander…
February 25, 2013
Blogging at Libertarianism.org, part 5: More on Liberty and Property
A few weeks back, I posted an essay at Libertarianism.org arguing that property rights necessarily restrict freedom. I noted in that post that I thought that property rights enhance freedom…