There’s a common argument that libertarians make against the idea of social or distributive justice. The argument, made by both Robert Nozick and Friedrich Hayek, purports to show not merely…
Assume there is a moral principle indicating that states (or citizens therein) that have adequate (or better) resources have an obligation to aid those in states that have inadequate resources….
In various places I have argued that a person can exercise civic virtue without any engagement in politics whatsoever. The duties of citizenship and the goal of promoting the common…
A number of commentators to my previous post (to my surprise) agree with Rothbard’s view that the American Civil War was unjust. They support this claim with a variety of…
Libertarians are opposed to war. They see war as a terrifying and self-serving exercise of state power. As Murray Rothbard put it in 1994: war is “an instrument for the…
The Molinari Society is calling for papers. Your papers. In what may be of some interest to philosophically-inclined Bleeding Heart Libertarians: the Molinari Society (of which I am a member;…