Defending the Undefendable II: Freedom in All Realms

INDEX

absolute advantage theory, 16, 25–27

ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), 65

Afghanistan, xvii

ageists, 145–48

agriculture, 6

Alabama, 31, 69

Allen, Woody, 178–80

Alliance for Non-Violent Action, 169

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 151

Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 212

Ann, Sally, 153–54

Asimov, Isaac, 84

Baby and Child Care, 169

baby sellers, 181–83

Babylon 5, 212

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 25

Bad Samaritan, 195–203

Beck, Glen, 121, 137

Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 41–42

Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles, 151

black markets, 100–2

Block, Walter, ix, xi, 114

Bolt, Usain, 164

Boy Scouts of America, 149–55

Brandt, Joseph, 119

Brandt, Sharon, 119

breast milk substitute purveyors, 103–8

British Petroleum (BP), 31–36

Buckley, William F., 65, 66

Bush, George, 13

Bush, George W., xvii, 10, 13, 35

Bushnell, Nolan, 170

California Supreme Court, 151

Canada, 16, 23, 24, 26, 38, 58, 111, 128

Canute, King, 145

capitalism, xvii, 18, 33, 103, 105

Carmack, John, 170

Catholic Church, 130, 154

Chicken Little, 121

China, 18, 20, 37, 105

Christian Labor Association of Canada, 57

Citizen Kane, 177

City Lights, 177

Clooney, George, 47, 51

collectivism, xix

colorizers, 177–80

comparative advantage theory, 7, 27–29

conservatives, x, 121

Cook, Robin, 96

copyrights, 225–27. See also intellectual property

corporate raiders, 41–44

Costa Rica, 16, 26

Council of Churches, 169, 170

Curran, Timothy, 149–51

daycare providers, 71–75

Deep Water Royalty Relief Act, 34

Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 31–36

Defending the Undefendable (I), ix, xiii

Detroit, 10

discrimination, 125–66

age, 145–48

sexual, 125–31, 149–55

Douglas, Michael, 42

duelists, 205–10

dwarf throwers, 219–22

Edelstein, Michael, 206–7

egalitarianism, 125, 165

e-Harmony, 154

Ehrlich, Isaac, 216–17

Eley, Gregory, 119–20

Ellis, Albert, 206–7

employment, 5–6, 8–11, 15, 18, 21, 31, 34, 47

new opportunities of, 78–79, 81, 83, 192

Epictetus, 206

Ethiopia, 199–201

executioners, 211–18

exhibitionists, 111–14

fair trade, 13

Fawcett, Farrah, 119

FDA (Food and Drug Administration), 105, 108

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), 35

feminists, 111–12, 129–30, 166, 169, 172

Florida, 31

foreign aid, 17, 19, 200, 201

free trade, 13–29

freedom, xvii, xviii, xx, 91, 113

economic, 10, 53, 61, 98, 102

individual, 91, 127

religious, 130, 154

Friedman, Milton, 62

Genovese, Kitty, 196

Germany, 5, 62

Giffords, Gabrielle, 121

Gogh, Vincent van, xx

Good Samaritan Act (Minnesota), 196–203

Google, 80, 229

government, x, xi, xiv, 4, 5, 32, 34, 65

international trade and, 13, 15, 21, 24

intervention in the economy, 72–75, 87–88, 90–92, 98, 104–5, 107, 113, 135, 183, 188

nuclear energy and, 39

privacy and, 142–44

public sector unions and, 61–64

U.S., 32–36, 58

Gulf of Mexico, 31, 34–36, 37

Hansel and Gretel, 121

hatchet men, 47–51

Hayek, F. A., ix

heritage building destroyers, 185–92

Herizons, 129

hierarchy, illegitimate vs. legitimate, 70

home workers, 53–56

homesteading, xiii

homophobes, 149–55

Hong Kong, 16–18

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, 225

human organ merchants, 95–102

Hunky Bill’s Perogies, 128–29

Hurricane Katrina, 35

I, Robot, 84

IBM, 80, 229

Icahn, Carl, 42

Illinois, 69

individualism, xix

INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coalition), 106–8

institutions, 73, 88, 114, 146, 155

private and voluntary, xi, xx, 73–75

state, 73–74

intellectual property (IP), 223–29

International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.), 20

Iraq, xvii, 141

IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 58, 66

Jack and the Bean Stalk, 121

Japan, 21–22, 27–28

Jones Act, 35

King, Larry, 117

Ku Klux Klan, 160

labor, xiii, xiv, 6, 15

cheap, advantages of, 7–11

child, 53

international division of, 4, 10, 14, 16

labor-management relations, 60

lump of, fallacy, 81–82

organized, 55, 57, 59–61, 66, 67, 69

laissez faire capitalism. See capitalism

liberalism, xviii

liberals, x, 163

libertarianism, ix, xiii, xv–xvi, xix–xxi, 61, 62, 66

ethics and, xiv

individualism and, xix

libertinism and, xi, xviii

libertarians, ix–xi, xviii, xxi, 61, 64, 65, 69, 219

libertinism, xi, xviii

liberty, ix, xi, xv, xvi, xviii, xx, 91. See also freedom

licenses, xviii, 143

Limbaugh, Rush, 121, 137

Little Red Riding Hood, 121

Los Angeles, 5, 6, 149, 151

Loughner, Jared, 137

Louisiana, 31, 69

Ludd, Ned, 80

Luddites, 78, 80

MacBride, Roger Lea, xi

Manne, Henry, 42

Marshall Plan, 25

masochists, 137, 208

Massachusetts, 69

Means, Gardner C., 41–42

Mennonite Central Committee, 169

Microsoft, 80, 229

Milken, Michael, 43–44

minarchists, 61

Minerals Management Service (MMS), 32

minimum wage laws, x, xv, xvi, 53

Mississippi, 31, 69

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 25

multinational corporations, xvi, 3–11, 106–7

New Orleans, 35, 192

New York City, 6, 87, 114, 153–54, 196

Newark, 10

Night and Day, 135

non-aggression axiom, ix–xi, xix, xxi, 64, 69, 115, 195

non-aggression principle. See non-aggression axiom

Nozick, Robert, 212

nuclear energy, 37–40

Obama administration. See Obama, Barack

Obama, Barack, xvii, 10, 14, 32, 34, 35, 36

Oil Protection Act, 33

organized labor. See unions

Orthodox Jews, 130, 154

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 214

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 34

Palin, Sarah, 121, 137

Parents for Peace, 169

Parker, Robert B., 135

Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA), 35

Paul, Ron, ix–xi

peeping Tom, 133–44

People’s Republic of China. See China

personal rights, negative vs. positive, 125–27

Phelps, Fred, 141–42

Phillips Petroleum, 42

Pickens, Thomas Boone, Jr., 42

picket-line crossers, 57–70

Pollock, Jackson, xx

polygamous marriages, 115–17

Price-Anderson Act, 39

private property, xiii, xiv, 39, 91, 114, 135, 142, 144, 190, 224

private property rights, x, xix, xxi, 65, 113, 138–41, 192

protectionism, 14–16, 18, 19, 21

Rand, Ayn, xix, 65

Red Cross, 98

Rembrandt, Harmenszoon van Rijn, 25

research and development (R&D), 223, 226–28

Rothbard, Murray N., ix, 218

Ruby, Jack, 214

Salvation Army, 153–54

San Francisco, 87

scabs, 47, 57, 58–60, 66–67, 70

Schram, Roland, 153

Securities and Exchange Commission, 44

sexists, 125–31

Shakespeare, William, 25

Smith, Adam, 14–15, 18

smokers, 87–93

smugglers, xv, 13–20

Snyder, Matthew, 141

Snyder v. Phelps, 141

Spill Response Group Holland, 32

Spock, Benjamin, 169

Staten, Randy, 196

stereotypes, 157–66

stockholders, 9, 42

Stone, Jesse, 134, 135

Stone, Oliver, 42

Stossel, John, 63–64

sweatshops, 53–55

tariffs, xv, 5, 8, 13, 14, 20–22, 72

tax havens, 11

taxation. See taxes

taxes, xv, xviii, 3, 8, 11, 13, 40, 72

Taylor, Elizabeth, 117

Texas, 5, 31

The Burning Bed, 119

The Ethics of Liberty, 218

The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 41–42

The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors, 114, 137

Third World, 7, 11, 19, 20, 103, 106–8

Three Mile Island, 38

Three Minute Therapy, 206–7

totalitarianism, 10

unemployment, xviii, 3, 5

Canada’s insurance scheme, 23–24

unions, 7, 18, 32, 33, 35, 53, 55

legitimate, 60–61

libertarians and, 65–66

public sector, 61–64

violence of, 57, 59–60, 66

U.N. (United Nations), 106–7

United States (U.S.), 9, 10, 32, 38, 58, 111, 170

Constitution, 65, 144

foreign trade, 17, 18, 23, 24

government, 32–34, 35, 36, 58

military bases, xvii

Supreme Court, 151, 153

United Way, 153

USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), 62

Voice of Women, 169

Wall Street (movie), 42

Wall Street Journal, 32

war toy manufacturers, 169–75

Warren, Neil Clark, 154

wealth redistribution, 125, 127. See also egalitarianism

Westboro Baptist Church, 141–42

World Trade Organization (WTO), 3

World War II, 25

Yahoo, 80

Yao Ming, 161