Philosophy and Methodology

A common argument for libertarianism of the sort associated with writers like Nozick and Rothbard is that it follows more or less directly from the

Muetze Hellmer is a former student of mine at Loyola University New Orleans.

In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.

Classical liberalism arose at a time when Christian orthodoxy was still vibrant.

taken for granted.

Frank van Dun, in his article “Against Libertarian Legalism,” criticizes prior articles by N. Stephan Kinsella and me.

Randy Holcombe’s “Government: unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004) is an interesting and challenging, but ultimately fallacious, essay on

Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator.

Holcombe (2004) argued that government was inevitable. In Block (2005) I maintained that this institution was not unavoidable.

“The Broken Window,” An essay written by Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), was the first of a dozen short essays compiled under the heading, What i