May 20, 2011
Taxation and Slavery/Theft
In recent posts, Matt and Fernando talked about whether taxation was analogous to slavery. I thought I’d briefly say a little about this (now that I have returned from a…
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May 19, 2011
Kant: Libertarian or Progressive?
This is a post for philosophers; my apologies to readers who have different interests. I want to suggest that, perhaps, libertarians can claim Kant as one of them. I don’t…
May 14, 2011
Libertarian Radicalism and Health Care “Slavery”
Rand Paul thinks universal health care involves slavery: “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not…
May 10, 2011
How Not to Argue for Libertarianism
Murray Rothbard believes that each person has a right of full self-ownership, and that if we were consistent in recognizing this fact and its implications, we would see that anarcho-capitalism…
May 07, 2011
Libertarian Rights and Reasonable Disagreement
We’ve talked about this issue in the past here. But be sure to take a look at Roderick Long’s post on “The Paradox of Property” at Austro-Athenian Empire. And pay…
May 06, 2011
Libertarianism and the Just Price?
I’ve been listening to Murray Rothbard’s Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, available as a free PDF here or as…