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

- Tom G. Palmer

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…

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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

- Tom G. Palmer

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…

- Tom G. Palmer