Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory

This weekend I came across an old journal I kept as a boy, when I was 8 to 10 years old, and was reading its goofy entries to my own 8 year old, to his delight. I came across an entry from November, 1975, when I was 10, and it strikes me now that it [...]

An audio version of my 2009 article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), has been produced, narrated by Graham Wright (audio file).  

My article “What Libertarianism Is” was just published in Italian in “Parte Terza: Diritto Naturale e Teoria Politica” of Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo: La scuola austriaca di economia (n.1-2 Gennaio-Giugno 2011), part of the Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine monograph series edited by Dario Antiseri (one of the major living Italian philosophers). Other authors include: Rothbard, Rizzo, [...]

Often people will decry tax breaks to certain businesses or industries on the grounds that this amounts to a “subsidy.” Of course it is false that letting people keep more of their money is a subsidy, but it is true that unequal tax rates (or breaks) can distort the market and benefit the more lightly-taxed [...]

The libertarian podcast Thinking Liberty is excellent and continues to impress (I was a guest on the Feb. 15, 2011 episode, discussing IP and related matters; the hosts were great and asked very intelligent questions). I really enjoyed a few recent episodes: 2011-07-26 show, featuring Kevin Carson (who has some nice things to say about [...]

Here’s Stefan Molyneux at PorcFest 2011 at a Students for Liberty Q&A, discussing his Universally Preferable Behavior theory, and briefly fielding a question about Hoppe’s argumentation ethics and my estoppel theory (go to about 20:38):