But There Is No Obvious Reason For

At George Mason University I Saw Hoppe Present A Lecture In Which He Claimed That Ludwig Von Mises Had Set The Intellectual Foundation For Not Only Economics, But For Ethics, Geometry, And Optics, As Well. This Bizarre Claim Turned A Serious Scholar And Profound Thinker Into A Comical Cult Figure, A Sort Of Euro Kim Il Sung.

[l]et Me Point Out That Libertarians Defend A Tradition Of Liberty That Is The Fruit Of Thousands Of Years Of Human History.

Libertarians Typically Argue That Particular Obligations, At Least Under Normal Circumstances, Must Be Created By Consent; They Cannot Be Unilaterally Imposed By Others.

Group Personification Obscures, Rather Than Illuminates, Important Political Questions.

Guardians Are Necessary For Children And Abnormal Adults, Because They Cannot Make Responsible Choices For Themselves.