In my last post, I argued that Rothbard’s discussion of self-ownership in chapter six of The Ethics of Liberty rests on a fundamental confusion between descriptive and normative claims. Individuals in the…
More from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. There’s a stereotype that libertarians think politicians and other government agents are selfish sociopaths, out for themselves. Libertarians oppose romantic ideas about government….
Here’s the cover story for Reason magazine‘s November issue. It discusses my work on voting at some length. Excerpt: Many people like to be perceived as altruists, for example. Voting is one…
More from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know Certain libertarians of a more conservative bent tend to treat the US Constitution as a sacred document. Some think tanks routinely pump out…
Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was published almost forty years ago – the first and still most widely known book in academic philosophy to take libertarian thought seriously. How have…
The excellent David Gordon has a thoughtful review here: http://mises.org/daily/6216/What-Is-Neoclassical-Liberalism