Property Rights

In a market economy, it is not the warlord or strongman who seizes control and lords it over his subjects. Rather, it is the common man as consumer who sets the terms for victory in the marketplace.

We all are too familiar with the approach to pandemics taken by governments at all levels in the US.

Bob elaborates on two ideas he had when he wrote his novel "Minerva" in grad school.

In his new book, The Great Fiction, Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses how every property owner now faces the threat of his property being turned into "fiat property" at the whim of the state, at any time. 

"Private companies" that openly deplatform, impoverish, and unperson dissident voices are waging a war of attrition

Using a recent Dave Smith interview of Michael Malice as a springboard, Bob elaborates his understanding of anarcho-capitalist principles to the thorny issues of vaccine passports, court rulings, and desegregation of the Old South.

Francis Beckwith explains the many threats to natural rights that have evolved out of political authorities' refusal to recognize the meaning and importance of religious rites. 

At what point does a "trivial" violation of property rights become a major problem? There is not an easy answer.

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.

One point to make here is that there is over 70 percent more submerged land in the US than the total amount of dry land in this country. That is, the federal government owns more submerged land than the total amount of land in the fifteen states.