Freedom lives at UT Austin
When confronted with a problem most people today turn to the government—but in reality, it’s often the government that created the problem and its continued involvement only exacerbates the problem. Politics distorts free market signals, quashes rights, and, quite bluntly, kills individuals.
Among libertarians, self-ownership is generally held to be a moral absolute. Under this view, it is not permitted ever that one person may be owned by someone else, even if he should attempt to sell his body voluntarily. The nonaggression principle and the self-ownership principle may be seen as equivalent or one may be seen [...]
This is the third article in a series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by our friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
Here’s another philosophical essay! Just keep checking up on my future posts here and you will see how this is all ultimately related to libertarian principles, trust me! Oh, I should probably mention just as a disclaimer that you should not conclude from this essay that I don’t believe in science. I totally do! It’s [...]
In a previous post, I have said that the progress of rights is constrained by two principles, that of homesteading and consensual exchange. The first says that property may not be acquired from nature without demonstrating ownership in some way. Originally this must require altering it some obvious way, but as a society develops a [...]
In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]
I’ve been working on an essay for my personal website, LibertarianChristians.com, on the topic of "What is a libertarian?" It is going a bit slowly because I also have a lot of other university-related activity that simply MUST happen or else bad things happen. Nevertheless, I’d like to share some of the articles I’ve been [...]
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