December 09, 2013
Immigration, Eugenics, and the Minimum Wage
A few months ago, I was reading a fascinating paper by Thomas Leonard on “Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era.” The paper is full of interesting tidbits, but I…
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
December 08, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto: In Five Parts
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously wrote “A Communist Manifesto” in anticipation of an imminent earthquake in world politics. Of course, in 1848, that seemed plausible. A number of people…
December 06, 2013
Adam Tebble on Redistribution in Light of Past Injustice
Matt Zwolinski recently posted a piece probing the question of whether a unconditional basic income might be a good idea from a broadly libertarian or at least classical liberal perspective….
December 06, 2013
Introduction to Logic
The following argument is unsound: Obama is president. Therefore, libertarianism is true. By pointing out that the argument is unsound, I don’t thereby reveal that I’m secretly a fascist….
December 06, 2013
The NAP Isn’t a Knock-Down Argument for Libertarianism. On the Contrary, It Begs the Question.
“Taxes are theft!” Maybe. But that’s a conclusion, not a premise. Some people think it’s amazingly simple to argue for anarcho-capitalist libertarianism. They think anarcho-capitalist libertarianism follows straightforwardly and directly…