One might ask: why has there been so little consideration of nonviolent resistance among libertarians? Is it because they are so enamored of the concept of self-defense that they automatically assume that violence in the sphere of self-protection should be automatically extended to national defense? The argument in this paper is not that nonviolent struggle should be the only form of social defense acceptable to libertarians, but rather that it offers a consistently moral and practical way for an anarchical society to protect itself.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

This study introduces the ideas of Robert Lewis Dabney on universal education. The goal of presenting Dabney’s views is to add to the discussion of natural order versus democracy.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

When I first received Milton Friedman’s letter in response to my article “Hayek’s Road to Serfdom” I did not realize it would lead to more. Over the past few years I have shared these letters with several colleagues, friends, and students. However, such are his fame and accomplishments that I thought these back and forth letters might be of interest to a wider audience of  JLS readers.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

In this article, J.C. Lester reviews Ddavid Conway’s In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

In this article, Marcus Verhaegh reviews Jacob Levy’s The Multiculturalism of Fear.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

In this article, William L. Anderson reviews Judge Andrew P. Napolitano’s Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws.

Volume 20, Number 3 (2006)

In this article, Richard Sharvy discusses Plato’s Euthyphro.

Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)

Although the present paper is dedicated to a highly critical examination of Hoppe’s contributions to the field of immigration, we readily acknowledge at the outset that here, too, even though we cannot see our way clear to agreeing with his conclusions, his splendid, imaginative, and ingenious “footprints” can readily be seen.

Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)

Susan Moller Okin, in her 1989 book Justice, Gender, and the Family, puts forth an objection to Nozick’s entitlement theory. In short, Nozick’s entitlement theory states that unowned material resources can be legitimately acquired by labor in a certain sense. Okin argues that an advocate of Nozick’s entitlement theory must, on pain of contradiction, accept that a mother owns her offspring by virtue of being the creator, at least until the offspring has developed certain properties and capabilities.

Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)

“Intellectuals . . . seek neither to understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p. 158) in a damning critique of those who were very much his intellectual kindred. Such a sentiment may at first seem surprising since Aron was, after all, a Marxist scholar and lifelong socialist who felt comfortable with the social welfare states prevalent in postwar Europe— welfare states that his fellow intellectuals strongly supported.