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OK, I am not condemning all liberals, but anti-authoritarian liberals should call out this blatant power grab for what it is.
There was recently a discussion on the Reddit’s Anarchism forum about the nature and origin of property rights. Many people, ironically both Objectivists and the vast majority of anarchists, believe that property rights would not exist in practice in the absence of a state to enforce those rights.
My take is that certain property [...]
I recently saw a video clip of Michael Moore calling other people’s money “a national resource.” I have to agree that in some cases other people’s money is not truly their own. For example, the wealth of Moore and others who benefit from government privileges, in Moore’s case intellectual property laws, would belong [...]
The Republican-controlled Texas state senate last week passed SB 16, which if made law would require women thinking of aborting their pregnancy to first perform a sonogram. Texas law already requires, unjustly I believe, a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion could be performed by a licensed physician. This new legislation would dictate what [...]
In his inaugural speech (also on YouTube) as a United State senator, Rand Paul gave an inspirational talk about the virtue of not compromising on issues of morality.
He gave a telling of the political career of former Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, who helped orchestrate the extension of slavery [...]
The Center for a Stateless Society is hosting a virtual symposium concerning issues of land ownership.
I thought I would offer responses to questions posed in Gary Chartier’s opening remarks.
After how much time does land become ripe for homesteading?
I take this question to be asking by what principle can a property become [...]
I call them conundrums because there may be some way around my objections to an occupancy-and-use theory for property rights, but I do not possibly see what those could be.
My understanding of occupancy and use is that someone has the right to control a property — something that is ownable — for the period [...]
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Why Not the Welfare State?
As I understand it, the case for the welfare state is the sense that “negative” liberty (being free from the coercive interference of others) is not an adequate condition for achieving a successful, flourishing life. Rather, “positive” liberty — the notion that liberty has its genuine virtue to the extent that one possess the power [...]