While catching up on the recent Cato Unbound conversations, I just read through Howard Ball’s lead essay and Philip Nitschke’s response about physician assisted death. Ball argues that a terminally…
(Trigger warning: While this post does not discuss rapes and assaults in detail, the article linked in the first paragraph does.) On Valentine’s Day, Rolling Stone published an article titled…
A few weeks back, I posted an essay at Libertarianism.org arguing that property rights necessarily restrict freedom. I noted in that post that I thought that property rights enhance freedom…
Matt Z. comments here. I concur. I’ll add a quotation from Schmidtz and Brennan 2010: Some theorists think a minimal set of protected negative liberties is all people need to…
Orthodox libertarians think quite a bit hinges on the definition of “liberty”. They try to revise the English language and reject what philosophers call “positive” conceptions of liberty, saying that…
…en Español! I don’t know why Palmer keeps accusing Schmidtz and me of conflating wealth with freedom. We explicitly disavow this in the book. Anyways, here’s our view: 1. In…