A few weeks ago, ThinkProgress published an exposé of the allegedly ugly roots of Rand Paul’s “libertarianism.” The title of the piece tells you all you need to know: “Rand Paul’s…
I’m halfway through a series of four essays on William Graham Sumner over at Libertarianism.org – the first is here and the second here. It might seem a bit odd…
“It is a tolerably well-ascertained fact that men are still selfish. And that beings answering to this epithet will employ the power placed in their hands for their own advantage…
Beginning December 10th, in conjunction with the awesome Students for Liberty (old people like it too!), I’m going to be leading an online reading group on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics. It’s going…
First, I would like to thank all those commentators who responded to what I wrote in “Natural Rights and Natural Stuff.” Second, I would like to clarify or restate 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…