Legal System

The idea of private property not only agrees with our moral intuitions—it is the sole just solution to the problem of social order.

Many of the governmental edicts are pseudo laws, rules that are annoying mainly because government has accrued to itself the sole, monopolistic authority to impose them on us.

Robert Taft fought military conscription in 1946, stating, "If adopted, it will color our whole future. We shall have fought to abolish totalitarianism in the world, only to set it up in the United States."

Legal tender laws create special privileges for government money. That kills true currency competition and favors the state's monopoly power.

Audrey Kline reviews Stephen P. Halbrook's The Right to Bear Arms, tracing gun rights from medieval times to the present day.

Is this trend toward soft secession necessarily illiberal? Is the potential for creating more states or political subdivisions, even if smaller and less sclerotic, moving us further from an idealized Hoppean private community model?

The federal government, along with pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco companies have spent money trying to put the legalization genie back in the prohibition bottle, so any argument or propaganda will suit their purposes.

Present-day prophets of a united Europe share with past conquerors like Napoleon and Hitler a strong preference for a society directed, more or less violently, by a small political elite. All in the name of "eternal peace." 

If property held by the government is "stolen property," is it acceptable for random citizens to “liberate” this property for their own use?

Presented at Mises University 2021.