New Terms for Old Libertarians in the New Year
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen starts off the new year by proffering two new terms involving classical liberalism and libertarianism
Tagged: political philosophy
In My Opinion’s Wake
Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that conclusion with his recent Ordinary Court opinion?
The Rise of the Wonky Left
~by Conor P. Williams I. What’s wrong? Remember back, if you can, to January 2009. It seemed to be a completely untainted transformational moment. To hear the Beltway chatter, this was the final unraveling...
Testing ideology
~by James Hanley Fellow reader Stillwater, responding to my critique, writes: you [Hanley] keep insisting there is this significant difference between our theories, our policies, our preferred values, our analytical methods. If there isn’t...
Cold Fusionism
So, you know how my blognado was supposed to get my juices flowing again? Yeah, well so much for that plan. I can plead all manner of excuses: I’ve started a new project at work that’s tapping my...
Murali’s Democratic Impossibility Theorem
Ladies and Gentlemen this being the latest in a round of posts on democracy, is going to be long. I also promise that it will be bizarre. I would like to talk about two...
Vox populi, vox dei
I’ve been thinking over Erik’s post about libertarians and democracy, and I’ve been taking the opportunity to think over my own attitudes toward democracy, and how compatible with libertarianism I think democracy is. First...
Neo-Liberalism Again
Henry Farrell summarizes neoliberalism as defined by Colin Crouch in The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism: Crouch depicts classical liberalism and social democracy as mirror images of each other. Both are intensely suspicious of the...
The economic hurdles of a left-libertarian alliance
~by Shawn Gude We’re in rather unpropitious times for left-libertarian bridge-building. I don’t take glee in making this assertion; I’m more crestfallen than content. Indeed, I’ve spilled a fair amount of ink arguing that...
Liberalism, Centrism, and Libertarianism
Since I have been called a “fake liberal” recently, I thought I’d delve into the subject once again. I am a liberal mainly because the rather short arc of liberalism traces pretty well alongside...
Rawlsekianism Reloaded Part IIb: The Principles of Justice
~ by Murali [This is an ongoing series by guest author, Murali. Read Part I here. Read Part IIa here.] After a long hiatus where I was working on some other stuff, I am...
Open-Source Unionism and Labor Scarcity
Ned Resnikoff has been putting out some really fascinating work lately. His writing on small-R ‘republicanism’ and non-domination is really excellent, and a nice twist in the broader debate over what sort of form...
On Neoliberalism
First things first: I absolutely loathe the term ‘neoliberal’ and its derivatives. For one thing, neoliberals are much more akin to classical liberals than traditional leftists, and there’s an obvious dissonance between ‘classical’ and...
A Defense of Pragmatism
~by RTod When I was in high school I briefly embraced Communism. I did so for all the reasons white suburban 16 years olds often do: Communism was defiant and rebellious, seemed at...
“Libertarianism and Madisonianism
~ by James Hanley BlaiseP made the following Madison-inspired comment about libertarianism: It is a statement of sovereign truth that every scheme which believes men to be angels, that freedom is the highest good, that...
Rawlsekianism Reloaded Part IIa: The argument for Maximin (or Leximin)
by Murali By popular demand, I am back with part 2 where I derive the principles of justice. Unfortunately, part 2 started to take up lots of space and had to be split up....
Libertarianism & Power
Freddie reads this post by Nick Gillespie on the arrest of a Reason reporter at a D.C. taxi public forum and writes: In a poor, majority-black city with a long history of drugs, crime,...
Doubt and Ideology
Erik just posted a piece considering how liberals and libertarians view liberty and justice, and how he is left ambivalent between these worldviews. If you haven’t read it yet please do so, I can...
Let the wind between howl, lonely and wild
John Tomasi has a thought-provoking post up at Bleeding Heart Libertarians on the yawning divide between classical liberals and libertarians on the one hand and high liberals on the other. Off one coast, we...
Millman’s Taxonomy ctd.
William summarizes Millman’s taxonomy (and doesn’t that roll off the tongue? You almost want to capitalize ‘taxonomy’: Millman’s Taxonomy – as if it were some well established thing…) thusly: liberal vs. conservative (attitudes toward...
