Legal System

Much of what we might call monopoly capitalism (or crony capitalism) can be tied to intellectual property laws.

A libertarian view of the law by definition means that there can be no immunity from legal consequences. Anything else perverts the very meaning of law.

A libertarian view of the law by definition means that there can be no immunity from legal consequences. Anything else perverts the very meaning of law.

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.