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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one pe….

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us..

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

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….

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

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 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….

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

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

Obligations may be universal or particular..

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

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….