December 12, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust
In my on-going series on Property-Owning Democracy (POD), I have explained the idea of a POD, examined the case for POD and argued that POD is unworkable. In this post,…
Posts filed under liberalism
October 12, 2012
A Political Liberal Interpretation of Liberal Neutrality
Brink Lindsey ends his recent post with the following question, one that continues to plague political philosophy, If liberal neutrality does have limits, where are they and how do you…
October 09, 2012
Human Capitalism’s Inconvenient Implications
The argument I make in Human Capitalism (see this prior post for a quick summary) raises uncomfortable questions across the ideological spectrum – and the corresponding philosophical spectrum as well….
August 29, 2012
Freedom of Association Revisited
In my last post, which generated a lot of controversy, I discussed (but did not defend) FIRE’s (apparent) plan to defend the freedom of association rights of religious groups at…
June 12, 2012
Recharting the Map of Social and Political Theory: Where is Government? Where is Conservatism?
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium,…
May 09, 2012
F. A. Hayek: Enemy of Social Justice and Friend of a Universal Basic Income?
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The…