Over a decade ago, I wrote an article published at Mises.org on the libertarian immigration conundrum. The “conundrum” was the seemingly unbridgeable differences between, if not contradictory views of, the two libertarian answers to the immigration question. The point...
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8/17/18 Sheldon Richman and Khaled Al Sabawi on Palestinian Property Rights and Titles
by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman returns to the show, this time to interview Khaled Al Sabawi about his work helping Palestinians on renewable energy projects and with getting property deeds. Sabawi explains the many injustices suffered by Palestinians at Israeli hands, as well as the...
8/10/18 Sheldon Richman on Palestinian Property Rights
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman joins the show to talk about Khaled Al Sabawi, and his attempt to provide current property titles to Palestinians on the West Bank, about the many abuses of the Palestinians at Israeli hands, including displacement through settlements on the West Bank...
Not All Austrian School Libertarians Are Border Restrictionists
by Scott Horton | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
For example, David Hathaway wrote this great book, Immigration: Individual vs National Borders a couple of years ago, endorsed by myself and late partner in the Institute, Will Grigg. It's a purely Misesian, praxeological case against state border enforcement. As Will...
There is NO Right to Free Speech Ep. 81
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 7, 2018 | Libertarianism, Op Eds, Politics, Vital Dissent
Audio Only Link In this short podcast episode, I plug my upcoming appearances, and explain how free speech and "the right to privacy" don't exist unless the right in question is supported by general property rights. Either...
SF Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Build Apartments on His Own Property
by Christian Britschgi | Feb 24, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
To understand how difficult and expensive it is to build housing in San Francisco, observe the case of Robert Tillman. Tillman owns a single-story laundromat in the city's Mission District. Since 2014, he has been attempting to develop his property into a 75-unit...
New Bill in Alabama Would End Civil Forfeiture Once and For All
by Nick Sibilla | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Late Tuesday, two Alabama lawmakers filed legislation that would completely eliminate the state’s civil forfeiture laws, which let the government take and keep property without ever filing criminal charges, and replace it with criminal forfeiture. Currently, 14 states...
TGIF: Liberty, Democracy, and the Right
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman
I am mystified by the claim that the long-standing libertarian critique of democracy furnishes aid and comfort to conservatives who display a taste for populist authoritarianism. Let me say at the outset that the libertarian critique has nothing to offer those who...
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The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
What’s Behind HTS Rebranding and the Rise of Geopolitical Tensions? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Al-Qaeda's Takeover in Syria: Truth Behind the Headlines! Al-Qaeda's recent control over Syria marks a significant shift in the region, and we need to unpack its implications. While mainstream media may portray this as a victory for freedom and justice, the reality is...
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...