Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…
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…
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…
Obviously people on this blog like both Hayek and social justice. One thing we sometimes observe is that Hayek made kind remarks about Rawls’s conception of justice in Volume II…
I really liked Megan McArdle’s column and Jason’s post about it this morning. They both nicely illustrate how a lot of the resistance to Walmart and McDonald’s in particular is…
My series on William Graham Sumner at Libertarianism.org is now complete. I blogged here about the first two posts a couple of weeks ago. The last two posts went up…