Colin Williams, “Contra Spooner,” argues that Lysander Spooner is wrong about the state’s being the “instrument of robbery, slavery, and murder.” He begins by observing, accurately enough, that Spooner’s arguments are constructed of “pure philosophy” and thus require a reply in kind. It is puzzling, then, that Williams thinks to show Spooner wrong by a “survey of the culture of the ancient Mediterranean.” This survey produces the result that the ancient Greeks thought nothing of plunder and murdering people as long as they were in some other city.

In this article, Robert Bass reviews Wendy McElroy’s The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908.

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In this article, J.C. Lester reviews Edward Feser’s On Nozick.

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The war in Iraq continues to dominate international developments and in its uncertain course casts a shadow not only on the foreign policy record of the Bush administration but on the peace of the world as well. Although the president has frequently identified his outlook with conservatism—notably compassionate conservatism— it seems that in pursuing his Iraq policy he has neglected one very important component of conservatism: a prudent respect for history.

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Almost anyone who was of age and living in the United States during the 1980s will remember that it was given the moniker of “Decade of Greed.” As the story went, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, the Republicans controlled the U.S.

This is part II of a two-part paper in which a critique is offered of the private right to free incorporation from a classical liberal or libertarian point of view.

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Susette Kelo would like to continue living in her newly-restored, waterfront home of seven years. Her neighbor, Wilhelmina Dery, would like to continue living in the home in which she was born in 1918 and, for the past fifty years, has shared with her husband, Charles.

It is obvious from his review of my book that J.H. Huebert holds me in genuine high esteem. This saddens him all the more for, in his view, I have squandered my talents on so unworthy a topic as Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, which he characterizes as “an unfortunate waste of talent for a powerful mind such as Randy Barnett’s”. While there is much that I disagree with in Huebert’s review, in this Reply I will focus on one crucial respect in which he misunderstands my thesis.

I appreciate professor Barnett’s comments on my review of his book, Restoring the Lost Constitution. My analysis of his book, however, remains the same: in the long run, his constitutional system would threaten, rather than advance, liberty. I also reject his idea that one can have a duty to obey the state, and do not share his approval of the imposition of the United States Constitution around the world.

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In this article, Stephen Cox reviews Robert Mayhew’s Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood.

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