Revisiting “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?”
Three decades ago, I published “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?” The answer I gave is that we do not, that government only substitutes one ki
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Review of To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice by Bruce Benson
This is the most important book on public policy to be published in a long time.
Calhoun, Sectional Conflict, and Modern America
During the sectional crisis, the overwhelming practical and theoretical inheritance that nourished the Southern worldview was built upon an appreci
Do Pessimistic Assumptions about Human Behavior Justify Government?
Is government a necessary institution?
Book Review of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty by Randy E. Barnett
n this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Randy E. Barnett’s Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government by Randall G. Holcombe
In this article, Dr. Ludwig van den Hauwe reviews Randall G.
Is Government Really Inevitable?
In response to my article, “Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004), Walter Block (2005) offers a detailed refutation of my argument on the
The Schism between Individualist and Communist Anarchism in the Nineteenth Century
The image of a bomb-throwing anarchist is a cultural caricature but, as with many caricatures, there is some truth behind it.
Locke, Hobbes, and the UD: Comment on van Dun
Frank van Dun, in his learned essay on the Hobbesian roots of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), passed by the UN General Assembly in
Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom
In this article, Frank van Dun offers a reply to Walter Block’s paper reviewing one of Dun’s previous works.
