On Fluffy Animals, Armed Bandits, and the Inner Logic of Libertarianism
This is a guest post by Dr. Vic McCracken, who is a Professor of Ethics and Theology at Abilene Christian …
Tag: property rights
Weekend Insights – Of Games, Math, and Politics?
Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI “President’s Corner” of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I’m thinking about…
The Freedom to Move
This classic essay was originally written by Oscar Cooley and Paul Poirot, and is excerpted from a pamphlet originally published …
Human Nature and the Free Society
By Edmund Opitz. —- Is there anything in the basic makeup of the men and women we know, or those …
Christianity and Self-Ownership
Is the libertarian idea of self-ownership contrary to the authority of God? Not all libertarians believe in self-ownership Before discussing …
Women’s Rights? A Libertarian Evaluation
Women’s rights movements have centered on the fact that in some societies women have been perceived as property or a …
The Moral Case for a Free Economy
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, by Robert Sirico (Regnery Publishing, 2012), 213 pages. Critics …
The War on Private Property
Do you want to live in an authoritarian society? Do you desire an intrusive government? Do you wish for a …
Who Owns You? I sure don’t…
I am on the board of The Foundation for a Free Society, and one of our objectives is to put …
Noah’s Ark and the Sanctity of Private Property
The subject of a proposed religious theme park in Kentucky brings up an issue near and dear to the heart …
With or Without a God: Natural Law and Property Rights
[Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (1995). An …
Against Net Neutrality
December 21, 2010, the FCC voted 3-2 for new measures regulating how content is transferred over the internet. Stephan Kinsella’s …
Theonomy, theology, and voting
Did this post title turn your head? Did you wonder what this would be about? Me too. Actually, I have …
Who Owns You?
This article is #21 – and the final article – of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, …
Tax Slavery Sucks
This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my …
What is the point of private property if you cannot use it?
An interesting example of confusion about private property came up this past week. I formerly lived in St. Louis, and …
Libertarian Overtones in Iron Man 2
I had the great opportunity to see Iron Man 2 at the IMAX in Austin on opening day last Friday. …
Smoking is Healthier than Fascism
This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my …
Hands Off My Home
Thanks in large part to the work of the Institute for Justice and the 2005 Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London, eminent domain (the taking of private property by the government) has caused much grassroots and legal activity.
Earth Liberation
Government policies cannot mimic the dynamism and spontaneity present in the market, and, in fact, more often than not create perverse and unintended consequences. The solution to environmental concerns is not for more government intervention but for the application of a free market approach, which encapsulates entrepreneurship, property rights, and voluntary transactions.
Communism Kills
Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).
Freedom and Majority Rule
By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World …
“The Fallacy of Intellectual Property”
The Ludwig von Mises Institute has featured my good friend Daniel Krawisz (from the Libertarian Longhorns) and his article The …
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
Yesterday was Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. Happy birthday, our heroic anti-war American muse. Here are some other articles of libertarian …
On Transportation Pollution: My first peer-reviewed publication
In the world of academia, one of the things you regularly try to do is publish your research in peer-reviewed …