A recent addition to the Journal of Libertarian Studies: 

Abstract

One of the industries hardest hit by the spike in fuel prices caused by the Iran War is airlines. Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the war. Airlines have reacted to the fuel price increase by raising fares and baggage fees, as well as by cutting routes.

Raising prices is not a good option for “budget” airlines since their main appeal to consumers is their low prices. Increasing prices could cause these carriers to lose business.

In February 1976, more than 70 petty criminals in Washington, D.C., donned their best clothes—some even rented tuxedoes—to attend a lavish party thrown by the Italian mafia. For months, these men had been robbing homes and business for goods they could fence. The gangsters who ran the fencing ring had names like “Angelo Lasagna” and “Rico Rigatone,” and they paid out $67,000 dollars over the course of five months for more than $2.4 million worth of stolen goods. 

In a recent Bleeding Heart Libertarian post, philosopher Matt Zwolinski tells us he can no longer “describe the core commitments of American libertarianism” as he could have just ten years ago. The reason, he says, is that the apparent consensus about libertarianism that emerged in the 1970s and started unraveling by the 1990s was just a temporary condition—an anomaly; libertarianism has otherwise been a shifting, evolving movement suffering “recurring bouts of fragmentation and re-fragmentation.”