Journal of Libertarian Studies

Perhaps everyone will agree that if we were all angels, no state would be necessary, and if angels were the governors, they would require neither i

In Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse (2005), Professor Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment are the “ulti

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

Libertarian writers including Hoppe, Hummel, and Murphy have attempted to deal with the presence of free riders in theoretical private defense cons

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

The image of a bomb-throwing anarchist is a cultural caricature but, as with many caricatures, there is some truth behind it.

In this article, Frank van Dun discusses the differences between The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD) versus Natural Rights .

The War Between the States has been a source of controversy for some time among libertarians.

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

“Coase, get your cattle off my land.” –Walter Block