January 08, 2014
New Op-Ed on the War on Poverty
I have an op-ed today at WSJ’s “Marketwatch” site that jumps in on the discussion of the War on Poverty. I make two arguments: 1. The War on Poverty has…
Posts filed under inequality
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…
October 21, 2013
Whatchya Got Under There, Sweetie?–Joking and the TSA
I travelled a lot when I was pregnant with my daughters. During one of those trips, the TSA agent “helping me” watched me load my carry-on bag onto the conveyor…
July 11, 2013
Bleeding-Heart Kansas
There’s an article in the Washington Post on the… divergence of views and attitudes among libertarians with respect to the Civil War. Our own Steve Horwitz is quoted. There’s a…
April 29, 2013
Arneson on Egalitarianism at the SEP
My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of…
March 27, 2013
Koppl on Income Inequality
At ThinkMarkets, Roger Koppl argues that Income Inequality Matters. Some excerpts: The surprise should be that we pro-market types have not spoken up more on this central issue, thereby letting…