But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left….

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flouris….

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket..

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history..

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only e….

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally….

Obligations may be universal or particular..

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves..

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common….

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract en….

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of….

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterall….

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now a….

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be v….

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives..

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights..

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matt….

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America..

Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our ….

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions..