Journal of Libertarian Studies - 2023 V-27 I-01

Charles Amos reviews Billy Christmas's Property and Justice, finding that the author "mostly succeeds" in linking freedom to property rights. But there are two significant problems.

How does libertarianism apply to COVID restrictions? Can libertarians, as libertarians, argue against universal antipandemic restrictions? In this reply to Walter Block, Norbert Slenzok says yes.

Is it possible to "steal" from a thief? Sven Thommesen has argued that it is; Walter Block contends here that it is an impossibility.

F.A. Hayek's concept of complexity undergirds his pro-market stances, and helps us understand what forms of intervention he thought acceptable, says Adam Lovasz.

The market economy cannot be eradicated, but is omnipresent even if it is ostensibly outlawed.

Bruce Gilley uses a policy analytic approach to study the evidence on pay equity policies, and finds that pay equity policies lack fundamental justification.

Hatim Kheir proposes a reformulation of Hoppe's argumentation ethics, premised on arbitration as the chosen means of conflict resolution, which proves the right to ownership.

The unparalleled expansion of control that originated in the Enlightenment era's fiscal state could lead to the implosion of civilization. But it may be impossible for people to understand why.

Manuel Tacanho presents a framework for understanding and ranking socioeconomic systems, and demonstrates that modern economies, even the "capitalistic" ones, are statist.

What should we think of state intervention banning the creation of artificially intelligent servants who achieve humanlike moral status? Bartlomiej Chomanski argues that criminal law should not prohibit this development.

This paper applies a Hohfeldian analysis of rights to Hoppe's argumentation ethics, namely, that it is impossible to deny one’s opponent’s self-ownership right without falling thereby into a performative contradiction

Does Kinsella's theory of dialogical estoppel only when it is meted out by the victim and his agents, or also when it is exacted by the third party?

The classical liberal Meira Penna, in his critique of the Brazilian paternalistic state, advanced arguments that were clearly influenced by the Austrian School.

British popular liberalism was never sufficiently committed to classical liberalism, says Martin George Holmes. When a misguided humanitarian impulse arose, it created a statist trend that ultimately destroyed the movement.