Libertarians believe in self-ownership. But what about the ownership of external resources? Can individuals legitimately acquire permanent bequeathable property rights in land by “mixing their labor” with it? Or does…
I’m a big fan of Tomasi’s new book. However, rather than promote it, I’ll attack it. Worse, for this exercise, I’ll be unfair. I’ll articulate some objections that I believe…
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of…
During the recent Cato Unbound discussion on the history of libertarian thought, David Friedman has asked how the “neo-Rawlsian” libertarianism that John Tomasi and Matt Zwolinski (and I) affirm is…
On p. 272 of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick writes the following: Economically well-off persons desire greater political power, in a nonminimal state, because they can sue this power to…
Today we will be discussing the contributions of Robert Nozick to modern social philosophy and political economy. It is my impression, perhaps wrong, that most philosophers and political theorists focus…