October 04, 2012
Anarchist Calisthenics
James C. Scott, author of the excellent Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, has a new book just out: Two…
Author: Matt Zwolinski
October 04, 2012
Reading The Ethics of Liberty, Part 4 – Rothbard’s Second Argument for Self-Ownership
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…
October 02, 2012
Reflections on Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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…
October 01, 2012
Reading The Ethics of Liberty, Part 3 – Rothbard’s Confusion About Self-Ownership
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the natural law foundation of Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty, and suggested that it runs into difficulties with David Hume’s famous “is-ought” problem. In…
September 28, 2012
Steve Horwitz on Reason TV
Our own Steve Horwitz sits down with Nick Gillespie of Reason TV to talk about Austrian Economics, the family, and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism! For more of Steve on Austrian Economics,…
September 27, 2012
Join Us at Libertopia!
In case you need a reason to come to San Diego in October… here it is! Two weeks from now, from October 11-14, the third annual Libertopia festival will be taking place…