March 11, 2015
CFP: Lockean Libertarianism
Billy Christmas (who was part of the same MANCEPT 2014 workshop as me (“The Current State of Libertarian Political Philosophy”) in September, and who also participated in the Molinari Society’s…
Posts filed under property rights
September 11, 2014
Political Authority and the Basic Income
Lately I’ve been thinking about my reasons for endorsing a UBI, especially given that I also share Michael Huemer’s skepticism about political authority. Consider this case: (1) Anne runs a…
May 30, 2014
A New Essay on Libertarianism and Pollution
A little over a year ago, I published a short essay on libertarianism and pollution at Libertarianism.org. Today I have a new one. It’s much longer – about 8,500 words as opposed…
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
November 14, 2013
Schmidtz on First Possession and Xenophobia
Just as we don’t do a lot of just-a-link posts around here, we don’t do a lot of just-a-quote posts, either. But as I was preparing for class today, I…
November 06, 2013
Property Rights Are Kinda Different
Well, my next post was going to troll you all really hard by arguing that disagreements about sexual morality are reasonable. Then Bas had to come along and upset my…