Is Secondhand Smoke Bad, or Is It a Public Good? It’s Complicated
The usual answer is that secondhand smoke is bad. But if value is subjective, perhaps secondhand smoke also can be seen as a public good.
Property Rights
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Rejoinder to Thommesen on “Stealing” from Thieves
Is it possible to "steal" from a thief? Sven Thommesen has argued that it is; Walter Block contends here that it is an impossibility.
How Should We Regulate the Sun (Since Our Government Regulates Nearly Everything Else)?
Do we have a right to sunlight? How do we assert those rights? Murray Rothbard provides some answers.
Much of the World’s Oil Is Owned by Governments. There’s No Good Reason for This.
How do we view government ownership of natural resources? Can a homesteading case be made for it? Usually not.
Book Review: _Property and Justice: A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights_
Charles Amos reviews Billy Christmas's Property and Justice, finding that the author "mostly succeeds" in linking freedom to property rights. But there are two significant problems.
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Two Volumes
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, selected and arranged, with a preface, by Theodore Sedgwick, in two volumes. (1839) This collection provides important example of populist laissez-faire opinion from the Jacksonian Era...
Socialism, Minority Groups, and Personal Liberties
People from socially and economically marginized groups in the USA tend to support socialism. Yet socialists have a long and bloody history of suppressing these very groups.
The Scale of Statism: A Framework for Ranking Socioeconomic Systems
Manuel Tacanho presents a framework for understanding and ranking socioeconomic systems, and demonstrates that modern economies, even the "capitalistic" ones, are statist.
Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies
Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.
Did the US Steal Cherokee Land?
Like so many other Indian tribes, the Cherokees found out the US government has a penchant for not abiding by its own treaties.
