Journal of Libertarian Studies

Professor Loren E.

As the Marxian philosopher Louis Althusser used to put it, no reading is innocent.

This paper compares the work of two pioneers in the field of law and liberty: F. A. Hayek and his predecessor, Frédéric Bastiat.

The dislocation of established patterns of thought and behavior, under pressure of the kaleidoscopic changes that for convenience we often ascribe

In his recent work, Tyranny and Legitimacy, James Fishkin advances an argument against Roben Nozick’s theory of, what Fishkin calls, “a

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In this note I will argue that social contract theories aimed at establishing norms for personal and community life are inadequate.

Can anyone take seriously the question posed by the title of this paper? History clearly reveals the following facts.

The right of one person necessarily entails the obligation of another person or persons.

The twentieth century libertarian movement has experienced an ongoing debate between the minarchists, the advocates of “limited” govern