Toward a Libertarian Theory of Guilt and Punishment for the Crime of Statism
This paper is an attempt to combine the insights of Van Creveld (1999) concerning statism with libertarian theory in order to forge a theory of jus
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The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist’s View
In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.
The Rise and Fall of Jury Nullification
The United States Constitution guarantees the right to trial by jury in both civil and criminal cases.
Book Review: Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century
In this article, Professor Thomas E. Woods Jr. offers a review of Ronald Steel’s Walter Lippmann and the American Century.
Symposium on Federalism, War, and Reconstruction: Introduction
The War Between the States has been a source of controversy for some time among libertarians.
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
Undermining Property Rights: Coase and Becker
“Coase, get your cattle off my land.” –Walter Block
Toward a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability: A Critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Smith, Kinsella, Gordon, and Epstein
The Declaration of Independence maintains that:
The Constitutional Right of Secession in Political Theory and History
Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent, ethnically-based political entities emerged.
Reply to Frank van Dun’s “Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom”
In his article “Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom,” my friend and colleague Frank van Dun offers two options as my possible categorizati
