In Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I examine the question of which country is the most libertarian. I argue briefly that while the United States has the highest percentage…
In the wake of North Carolina’s awfulness, I thought I’d share some happy LGBT news. On Wednesday Argentina passed a law that protects citizens’ rights of gender self-determination. From the…
A slavery argument for libertarianism holds that some non-libertarian property scheme permits actions that bear strong moral analogies to slavery. Since slavery is bad, the property scheme is bad. A…
What kind of external property rights are consistent with self-ownership? It seems to me that once one acknowledges self-ownership, one cannot acknowledge any other rights unless those rights are themselves…
Note: the following is a review of Hillel Steiner’s Essay on Rights that was originally published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2 (June, 1996), pp. 283-302….
To start off: Why should libertarians be bothered about, specifically, rights to natural resources?[1. This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper first published in Public Reason 1…