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The Virtues of Property Rights

This post is the seventh in a series. While I have long understood the importance of property rights, my understanding

This post is the sixth in a series. In the early 1990s, I wrote a paper titled “Government Without Taxation.”

This post is the fourth in a series. About twelve years after zoning was defeated in Houston, I was contacted

This post is the second in a series. Before I could determine if Ayn Rand was correct in claiming that

Nearly forty years ago I read Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights,” for the first time. I was new to Rand’s

The title—“Government attacks free will when it assaults property rights”–of an opinion piece by Andrew P. Napolitano was intriguing. Unfortunately,

A little-known aspect of property rights is the concept of adverse possession, sometimes called squatters rights. Founded in common law,

Few people care about property rights until it is their property that is threatened. For example, when the federal government