Self-Ownership

Who Owns Your Children? The Government Keeps Acting Like It Does

Governments across the world continue to take actions that reflect the belief that it is not parents who are the guardians of their children but the state itself. In September, the First Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a high-profile case regarding whether a school violated parents’ constitutional rights by actively encouraging their 11-year-old Read More...

College Basketball's "One and Done" Should Be "None and Done"

Kentucky Wildcats head basketball coach John Calipari is largely credited with leading the way to establish what has become known as the "one and done" rule: basketball players must be at least one year out of high school before playing at the professional level. Many fans of college basketball are angry their elite players leave after a single year, but others are angry that there's a waiting requirement at all, which violates the freedom of contract.

Against the Non-Aggression Principle and Self-Ownership? Run!

Ayn Rand had Francisco d’Anconia say in the “Money Speech” from Atlas Shrugged, “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” Love that line. I feel the same about people who denigrate the libertarian notions of self-ownership and the […]