May 02, 2018
Blast from the Past: 21 Years Ago
I see that a video has recently been posted on YouTube of me, Jacob Levy, David Bernstein, and Richard Geddes on a panel on race, class, and gender at an…
Posts filed under bleeding heart libertarianism
September 28, 2017
Libertarianism for Luck Egalitarians
Luck egalitarianism is, roughly, the view that inequalities in life prospects resulting from luck are unjust. (There’s a lot to nit pick about that characterization, but it’s a start.) If…
August 21, 2017
Rawls, Ideal Theory, and the Public Goods Argument for the State
It’s been a while since I blogged here and I figure that some shameless self-promotion is the best way to ease back in. As discussed in Jason’s review, I’ve got…
July 08, 2016
CHANGE
Think nothing can be done? Vote for Gary Johnson. Let’s work on getting moralistic and paternalistic laws off the books so that there is less policing in the first place….
June 21, 2016
National Partiality and the Rights of Foreigners
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo We claim that immigration restrictions and liberalism are incompatible. One response to our argument is that states have stronger obligations to their citizens than…
April 29, 2016
A Moral Case for a Basic Income
Over at Café Hayek, Don Boudreaux has a nice post on a universal basic income. He says that he does “not believe that as a practical matter a UBI would…