Bleeding Heart Libertarianism
Over at Cato Unbound this month, Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi have a piece exploring what they term Bleeding Heart Libertarianism. (Matt founded an excellent blog entitled Bleeding Heart...
View ArticleBleeding Heart Libertarianism II: The Move to Utilitarianism
In my last post on Bleeding Heart Libertarianism, I described how I have always been a Bleeding Heart type of Libertarian. Today, I want to describe where I am now on this issue. Somewhere along the...
View ArticleBleeding Heart Libertarianism III: Friedman versus Zwolinksi and Tomasi
Over at Cato Unbound, David Friedman commented on Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi’s essay arguing that concerns of social justice informed the classical liberals. Friedman, who is sympathetic to...
View ArticleBleeding Heart Libertarianism IV
In my prior posts, I explained how I have always been a Bleeding Heart Libertarian who is concerned about the effects of liberty on the poor and how I now base my political views on a utilitarian...
View ArticleBleeding Heart Libertarianism V: Bryan Caplan’s Ideas
Over at our sister site, EconLog, the bloggers are discussing Bleeding Heart Libertarianism. Caplan notes with approval David Friedman’s criticism that the BHLs have not made clear the weight which...
View ArticleBleeding Heart Libertarianism, Utilitarianism, and Statism
Do bleeding heart libertarians have an argument against statism? My concern is that they do not. Take Mike Rappaport. He writes that “[1] I have always been a Bleeding Heart Libertarian who is...
View ArticleJames Bruce’s Critique of My Consequentialist Libertarianism: Part I
Last week, James Bruce wrote a critique of several of my posts that argue for a consequentialist approach to Bleeding Heart Libertarianism. In my view, welfare consequentialism – a more refined...
View ArticleJames Bruce’s Critique of My Consequentialist Libertarianism: Part II
In my last post, I offered some responses to James Bruce’s critique of my consequentialist libertarianism. Now, I complete my response. 4. Consequentialism and Constitutional Rules: Next consider...
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John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
Over at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians site, they are having a symposium on John Tomasi’s new book Free Market Fairness. The book takes a Rawlsian approach to political philosophy, but argues that...
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John Tomasi Rearranges the Deck Chairs on the Good Ship Liberalism
The number of contradictory positions associated with the words “liberal” and “liberalism” have led some to conclude that such expressions are now so unstable in their meaning that they lack sufficient...
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