Tag: Libertarianism

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia — at 50

Fifty years ago, Robert Nozick opened his most famous work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (ASU), with the following words: “Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the...

Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” – 52 years on

Ronald Reagan’s speech supporting Sen. Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign still speaks to us. “A time for choosing” may be from another, more polite era of political discourse but its themes of deficits, taxes, liberty, security and leadership are more pressing than ever....

Coloradans Light Up 2014: Sale of marijuana for personal use legalised

High up in the Rockies, the good people of the State of Colorado are taking a bold, freedom-orientated step – a step that will also start to reduce the individual, familial, community and wider social harms done by making drugs illegal. For today, just over 80 years after the...