Kathleen Touchstone

Kathleen Touchstone is a retired educator and author of Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics (University Press of America, 2006). Her recent papers include "Rand and the Austrians: The Ultimate Value and the Non-Interference" and "Charity, Childcare, and Crime: From Objectivist Ethics to the Austrian School".

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Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered

08/28/2010Libertarian PapersKathleen Touchstone

Abstract: This paper examines rights and the protection of rights from both the minarchist and the anarchist perspectives. The former relies on Objectivist (and Neo-Objectivist) perspectives and the latter relies primarily on Murray Rothbard’s views. My view is that government protection as put...

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