Journal of Libertarian Studies - 2021 V-25 I-01

David Gordon's review of Kevin Vallier's new book on social trust, which offers several useful defenses of property rights. Originally published in the _Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics_.

Is voting a moral duty, or only a right that citizens are free to ignore? Joseph Solis-Mullen reviews Julia Maskivker's The Duty to Vote.

Cryptographic protocols, based on some elements of monero cryptocurrency, presents a responsible voting scheme with profit and loss criteria for voters that is able to further the base political framework.

Walter Block argues that Norbert Slenzok is wrong to claim that there is no circumstance under which it would be justified, on libertarian grounds, to compel vaccinations.

The principal cause of today’s uncivil, adversarial culture is the prevalence of identity politics and political factions acting within a conflicted environment of redistributive progressive politics and counterprogressive postmodern ideology.

Neither classical liberals nor libertarians should yield to Marxists when it comes to the production and interpretation of literature. Storytelling should be in our wheelhouse as much as theirs.

Proto-Austrian and philosopher Hugo Grotius was essential to the portion of the Netherlands’ history in which it enjoyed the status of Europe’s foremost economic and maritime power.

Allen Gindler shows the origin and historical background of the artificial shift of fascism and National Socialism to the right side of the political spectrum.

Jonathan Ashbach argues that Hoppe's argumentation ethics fail due to two key flaws: a faulty methodology, and an arbitrary and simplistic conception of property rights.

Fegley and Dominiak respond to Block and Block's attempt to provide a universal libertarian theory of weapon control, and argue that it is divorced from property rights.

Is egalitarian intervention to address inequality destructive of liberty? Njoya argues that equality legislation is neither harmless nor costless, and undermines fundamental tenets of the rule of law.

Norbert Slenzok provides a libertarian case against anti-pandemic restrictions imposed by governments, with particular attention to libertarians who appear to support lockdowns.