Libertarianism

McAdams discusses what a Ron Paul doctrine for economics and foreign policy would look like. It would be laissez-faire at home, self-determination for political minorities up to and including secession, free trade, and a strictly noninterventionist military approach. 

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?

Professor Bradley Birzer from Hillsdale College joins the show to dissect Russell Kirk's famous 1981 essay condemning libertarians.

Mark Thornton provides a historical perspective on the growth of libertarianism, showing the limitations of the political path to liberty and the importance of the radical form of libertarianism.

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

Is it justifiable to accept money from government? Almost always, say Jonathan Gress and Walter Block--but not for everyone.

The outstanding merit of Brian Doherty’s book is that it contains a treasure trove of valuable information regarding the events, personalities, periodicals and organizations whose complex interplay influenced the intellectual and institutional development of the modern American libertarian movement.

To adopt monasticism before the international fascism we face today would amount not only to seceding but also to ceding everything worth saving to the monsters

In my view the language of “homesteading” of persons (i.e., children) is best abandoned. Retaining it causes confusion, and nothing essential to the theory is lost by giving it up.