An introduction by Roderick T. Long to the 21st volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . As mentioned above, this issue focuses on the anarchy/minarchy debate. Volume 21, Number 1 (2007) Long, Roderick T. “Editorial to Symposium: Market, Anarchism, Pro and Con.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 1 (2007):
Jordan Schneider’s article is directed in part against a talk I gave in 2004 titled “Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections,” in which I defended the moral and practical superiority of stateless over state-based legal systems. Schneider is unconvinced, maintaining that market anarchism will be unworkable because of the absence of legal
2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged , a novel that has had an enormous impact on the libertarian movement. Atlas Shrugged offered a powerful and inspiring case, both intellectual and emotional, for libertarian ideas at a time when such resources were thin on the ground. While the relationship of Rand and
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies , in 1977, was devoted to a symposium on Robert Nozick ’s attempt, in his landmark work Anarchy, State, and Utopia , to justify the minimal state against the case, by Murray Rothbard and others, for free-market anarchy. In the years since, the debate among libertarians as to the necessity
Issue 21.2 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies offers a variety of perspectives on constitutional interpretation, American democracy, and alternatives to state provision of law, prisons, and welfare. Defenders of the welfare state often assume that without tax-funded aid to the needy, private charity would be inadequate to fill the gap. In “
Benjamin Tucker’s journal Liberty was the foremost organ of 19th-century American individualist anarchism, and a major influence on Murray Rothbard and modern libertarianism; contributors to Liberty included such prominent free-market luminaries as Lysander Spooner, Auberon Herbert, and Vilfredo Pareto. (For background, see articles by Wendy
Lysander Spooner was the foremost legal theorist of the 19th-century American individualist anarchist movement. His 1882 open letter to Senator Bayard is fairly well-known among Spooner fans; but an 1886 sequel, A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard , which originally appeared in Benjamin Tucker’s anarchist journal Liberty , is much more obscure; it
Edmund Burke always claimed that his 1756 defense of anarchism, A Vindication of Natural Society , was intended satirically, and most Burke scholars have agreed. In a 1958 article , Murray Rothbard argued that Burke’s youthful anarchism was sincere, and that his later repudiation was politically motivated. But few Burke specialists were swayed.
[The following lecture was presented during the Philosophy of Liberty Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, Saturday, September 29, 2001.] All men are created equal. When Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, set out to enunciate the philosophical principles underlying the American Revolution—the
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.