Michael Liebowitz invited me back to talk about whether we should have a government.
Libertarianism
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I sat down recently with LiquidZulu to talk about anarcho-capitalism, Objectivism, and other things.
TGIF: Notes on Anarcho-Capitalism
I'm pretty sure I won't be around long enough to see anarcho-capitalism—or what I call market-ordered anarchism—prevail in the United States. I'm just as sure that I won't see government strictly limited to protecting individual rights and never violating them (if...
Marx Corrected
From each according to his freely undertaken contribution to the creation of wealth. To each according to the same.
Rose Wilder Lane, Frontier Prophet of Freedom
On December 5, 1886, on a windswept homestead near De Smet in Dakota Territory, Rose Wilder Lane entered a world of adversity. She was the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Within a few short years her family’s cabin burned, her parents were...
Henry Hazlitt, ‘Economic Conscience of a Nation’
Henry Hazlitt’s life story reads like a microcosm of the American century. Born in Philadelphia on November 28, 1894, he lost his father in infancy and left the City College of New York to support his widowed mother. In the fluid labor market of the time he bounced...
TGIF: The Capitalist-Socialist Asymmetry
Free-marketeers have long pointed out a particular asymmetry between capitalism and socialism (whether of the international or national variety). While anyone in a capitalist society would have a right to engage in socialism (as anyone can do now in our hampered...
Robert Nozick, From Socialist Youth to Libertarian Visionary
Born on November 16, 1938 in Brooklyn, Robert Nozick began his intellectual life as a young socialist but ended it as one of the twentieth century’s fiercest defenders of property rights and limited government. Raised in a Jewish immigrant household, he joined Norman...
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