Damon Linker has a piece at The Week arguing against compulsory voting. If you’ve ever read a college newspaper, there is no reason to read Linker’s take on the matter because you’ve already seen it before. Nonetheless, I found this bit pretty funny in light of Linker’s own failings: We all know that some people are more… Continue reading If Clueless People Shouldn’t Vote, Then Should Damon Linker?
Why The Big Government Land Deed Program Creates Growth-Destroying Distortions
One of the biggest government programs in the US is the land deed welfare program. Under this program, the government gives people the privilege to use the police to violently exclude everyone else from specific pieces of land denominated on pieces of paper called deeds. Through the operation of this guaranteed police violence, deed-holders are… Continue reading Why The Big Government Land Deed Program Creates Growth-Destroying Distortions
#NotAllLibertarians: An Illustration
Every time you attack libertarianism, libertarians respond by saying you haven’t actually attacked libertarianism. You’ve only attacked one libertarian or one perspective, but that’s not the right one to look at it. You are engaging in a straw man argument. And so on. It never ends. You can’t ever deliver a square blow against it… Continue reading #NotAllLibertarians: An Illustration
Handling Disputes Without Property Rights On Public Basketball Courts
Long-time readers will be familiar with my point that the most libertarian world is one in which people are free to do anything short of acting on the bodies of others. This is the world that perfectly implements the idea of negative liberty, non-aggression, and self-ownership. Naturally, this world does not have property, since property… Continue reading Handling Disputes Without Property Rights On Public Basketball Courts
Rothbard’s Point About Child Neglect
In response to Rand Paul’s hilarious claim that parents own their children, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig (ESB) posted at The New Republic about a slew of libertarian views about parenting that are stranger than even that. One of those views comes from Rothbard’s book Ethics of Liberty. In the book Rothbard applies the non-aggression, “no positive… Continue reading Rothbard’s Point About Child Neglect