March 17, 2014
Basing Libertarianism in the Harm Principle
This is the second in a small series of posts that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is here….
Posts filed under bleeding heart libertarianism
March 03, 2014
Toleration & Judging
My book, Toleration, is now available so I thought I would write up a few posts related to it. This first post will also be up on Polity’s blog. For…
February 23, 2014
Two Links
These should be of interest to our readers: Gregory Clark (UC-Davis Econ) in the NY Times about long term social mobility. One quote: “The fortunes of high-status families inexorably fall,…
December 16, 2013
Will Private Charity Be Enough?
Matt Zwolinski recently discussed arguments for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) at BHL and Libertarianism.org. One of those arguments was that a BIG might be required on libertarian grounds because…
December 05, 2013
Stoney hearted libertarianism or bleeding heart libertarianism?
I recently had a discussion with another libertarian philosopher who thought “bleeding heart libertarianism” made no more sense then “stoney hearted libertarianism.” Needless to say, I’m not convinced. The issue…
November 21, 2013
Horwitz vs Reiman on Children and Parent’s Bad Economic Choices
In the LearnLiberty video above, our own Steve Horwitz debates Jeffrey Reiman about the need for government interference to help children whose parents have made choices that leave their children at…