Social Injustice as Emergent Property

David Friedman has recently challenged BHLers to clarify our understanding of social justice (also see here). David has expressed some frustration that BHLers have sometimes offered definitions of social justice…

State Power and the Powerless

“It is a tolerably well-ascertained fact that men are still selfish. And that beings answering to this epithet will employ the power placed in their hands for their own advantage…

Welfare: Who Cares?

Some BHL types seem to think that welfare matters for its own sake. Recently, Kevin suggested that rights are justified by an appeal to the welfare interests they protect. On…

Steve Horwitz on Reason TV

Our own Steve Horwitz sits down with Nick Gillespie of Reason TV to talk about Austrian Economics, the family, and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism! For more of Steve on Austrian Economics,…

Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs

Our recent series of discussions on libertarianism and workplace coercion has led me to formulate yet another distinction among types of BHLs. Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs. One way to…

Libertarianism and Good Manners

Etiquette gets a bit of a bad rap from philosophers. Part of the blame, I suspect, has to go to Philippa Foot, whose otherwise excellent article, “Morality as a System…