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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right

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Foreword: I wrote this article when I worked for the Cato Institute in the early 1990s. I post it here because I think it is relevant to th...

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Monday, June 27, 2022

Privacy and the Constitution

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"[B]oth the [']liberals['] and the conservatives misunderstand privacy. The conservatives engage in a narrow and unnatural read...

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Do We Have a Right to Marry?

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Do we have a right to marry? It depends on what we mean by marry . If we mean making a contract with another consenting adult setting up a a...

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Sunday, March 08, 2015

Ben Carson Inserts Foot in Mouth

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Ben Carson, a conservative hopeful for president, made headlines last week by proclaiming that being gay or lesbian is "absolutely...

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Roderick Long Scores on the Marriage Equality Issue

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Victory Through Lexicography? | Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Screw the Vote

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So the people get to vote on who may marry? And this pleases conservatives? I thought they disliked mobocracy.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Good for New York!

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I’ll say it again. Good for New York!

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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