February 05, 2013
Ideologically Motivated Linguistic Revisionism
…en Español! I don’t know why Palmer keeps accusing Schmidtz and me of conflating wealth with freedom. We explicitly disavow this in the book. Anyways, here’s our view: 1. In…
February 05, 2013
Blogging at Libertarianism.Org, Part 4: Liberty and Property
Speaking of property, my latest at Libertarianism.org is up, looking at the relationship between freedom and property. The controversial part of my thesis, at least for libertarians I guess, is…
February 05, 2013
Property Rights are Conventional, So Libertarianism Is False? A Reply to Philip Pettit
When the great social democratic political philosophers of our day decide to address libertarianism outside of a philosophy journal, I am typically left wondering who on earth they think they’re…
February 04, 2013
Career Development Workshops, Sponsored by IHS
The Institute for Humane Studies is sponsoring a series of career-development webcasts here. On March 5th, I’ll be discussing how to succeed in graduate school (i.e., how to act in grad…
February 02, 2013
More on Libertarians and War
Libertarians think that only defensive war is justified. This belief about war is an extension of the beliefs about individual violence. Just as persons cannot permissibly attack other persons, so…
January 31, 2013
BHL at ISFLC: Ask Us a Question
As Matt noted earlier, Sarah, Jason, and I will be doing a panel discussion on bleeding heart libertarianism at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington. That session takes…