Book Review of Ayn Rand by Tibor Machan
In this article, Robert Bass reviews Tibor Machan’s Ayn Rand.
Political Theory
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Nozick’s Failed Defense of the Just State
In this paper, I argue that Nozick fails to adequately defend the claim that a just state would arise from a Lockean state of nature by a process w
Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is Not a Liberal View, and a Good Thing Too; Reply to Samuel Freeman
Libertarianism has been widely misunderstood, and the present essay under review is no exception.
Self-Ownership and Consent: The Contractarian Liberalism of Richard Overton
In the 1640s, an unknown English printer by the name of Richard Overton suddenly surfaced, seemingly out of nowhere, and catapulted himself into na
All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee’s “In Defense of Excessive Government”
Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the S
Life, Liberty, and . . . : Jefferson on Property Rights
Surveys of libertarian-leaning individuals in America show that the intellectual champions they venerate the most are Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand
Book Review of On Nozick, by Edward Feser
In this article, J.C. Lester reviews Edward Feser’s On Nozick.
Volume 19, Number 3 (2005)
Fallacies in the Theories of the Emergence of the State
The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to
Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Walter Block’s Reply
Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (min
The European Union’s American Pedigree: Lessons from the Other Side of the Atlantic
The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree.
