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There Is No Right to Privacy

For you—or the state, says Walter Block.

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7/13/2013

Institutionalizing Ignorance

Walter Block on the public schools.

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7/4/2013

Forced Funding for Circumcision?

Walter Block on conservative "religious liberty."

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6/25/2013

To Twist Noses and Advance the Good

Walter Block on why he writes.

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6/20/2013

Children’s Rights?

Walter Block on the libertarian view.

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6/14/2013

Anarchism, Minarchism, Ron Paul, and Me

Walter Block makes distinctions.

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6/13/2013

Unknown Libertarian History

Walter Block remembers Karl Hess and the Rothbard Circle.

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6/10/2013

Want To Solve Poverty in Bangladesh?

Walter Block on the imperative of laissez-faire capitalism.

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6/6/2013

Battling Anarcho-Capitalists

Doug Casey vs. Walter Block.

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4/13/2013

Walter Block: Doug Casey Is an Optimist

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4/13/2013

Is Austrian Economics a ‘Cult’?

Walter Block smacks down the establishment.

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4/12/2013

Is Austrian Economics a Cult?

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4/12/2013

Should We Hate Iran?

Of course not, says Walter Block. Live and let live.

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3/13/2013

Iran

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3/13/2013

Chris Selley Is a Pussy Libertarian; I'm Not

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2/25/2013

My ‘Debate’ With George Jonas Continues

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2/18/2013

The Curious Case of the Non-Libertarian, George Jonas

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2/8/2013

Forced Vaccinations

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2/4/2013

Libertarian Pessimism Confronted

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1/16/2013

Right To Work Laws: A Libertarian Analysis

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12/21/2012

Response to Questions on Libertarianism

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12/12/2012

Contra Randy Barnett on the Libertarian Party

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11/9/2012

Friedman on Intolerance: A Critique

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10/17/2012

Contrary to Paul Krugman, the Broken Window Fallacy Is a Fallacy

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10/8/2012

Long Thin Things

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9/3/2012

A Not So Funny Thing Happened to Me in Tampa

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8/30/2012

A Slim, Astounding Volume on Liberty

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7/10/2012

Is Libertarianism Anti-Religious?

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7/7/2012

Won’t You Come Back, Alan Greenspan?

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7/2/2012

Ron Paul for President, 2016

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6/14/2012

Come Home, Former Libertarian

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6/1/2012

The Koch-Cato Power Opera

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4/16/2012

Spike Lee’s Zimmerman Tweet

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4/2/2012

The Paul-Romney Rumors Are Bunk

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2/27/2012

Reply to a Doubting Infantry Veteran

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2/13/2012

How Is Ron Paul Doing?

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2/10/2012

The Catholic Candidate

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1/30/2012

Why the Fed Is a Criminal Organization

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1/23/2012

Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Libertarianism

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1/18/2012

The New Yorker vs. Ron Paul

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1/5/2012

Who Started It?

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1/4/2012

Ron Paul: Far Left or Far Right?

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1/2/2012

Is Ron Paul Out of Date?

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12/28/2011

Ron Paul Is a ‘Stooge for Hitler’?

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12/27/2011

Ron Paul Attacked by Greens

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12/13/2011

Can a Libertarian Oppose Ron Paul?

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12/12/2011

Response to a Jewish Opponent of Ron Paul

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12/10/2011

Hey, Republican Jewish Coalition

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12/5/2011

Those Beltway ‘Libertarians’

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11/2/2011

Advice for Ron Paul

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9/30/2011

What a Ridiculous Smear

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9/8/2011

Ron Paul’s Compatriot

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9/2/2011

Who Should Be Ron Paul’s Veep?

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8/30/2011

The Ron Paul Haters

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8/19/2011

Want To Understand the Ron Paul Movement?

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8/16/2011

All Stereotypes Are True

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7/6/2011

Andrew Napolitano for Chief Justice

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6/22/2011

Ron Paul Can Win

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5/26/2011

Statist Myths About the Japanese Earthquake

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3/21/2011

May a Libertarian Take Money From the Government?

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3/11/2011

The Battle of Wisconsin

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3/9/2011

Defend Union Thugs in Wisconsin!

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3/3/2011

Tapeworm vs. Tapeworm

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3/1/2011

It’s Ayn Rand Bashing Time Again

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2/18/2011

When It Comes to Arguing With a Leftist

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1/5/2011

They Chose Liberty

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1/4/2011

The Case for Discrimination

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1/3/2011

Who Predicted the Housing Bubble?

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12/22/2010

The Astounding Walter Block

Lew Rockwell on Mr. Libertarian.

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11/23/2010

How Would Child Abuse Be Handled in an Anarchist Society?

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10/13/2010

Taking Down a Liberal Prof

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9/10/2010

Abolish the State and All Its Works

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9/9/2010

The BP Oil Rig Disaster

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9/6/2010

Capitalism Is Compassionate

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8/12/2010

The Manifesto of Freedom

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8/10/2010

Is Libertarianism Left or Right?

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7/16/2010

The Speculator Is a Hero

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6/10/2010

All Hail the Miser

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5/29/2010

Statism Is Better for the Environment?

Don't make Karen Kwiatkowski and Walter Block laugh.

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5/8/2010

When Confronted With a Hostile Interviewer

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4/28/2010

Seven Rules for Media Interviews

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4/24/2010

Are Libertarians Part of the Left or the Right?

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4/13/2010

The 10 Books That Have Most Influenced Walter Block

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4/8/2010

‘Capitalism’ Today, ‘Capitalism’ Tomorrow, ‘Capitalism’ Forever

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3/26/2010

Is ‘Capitalism’ Politically Incorrect?

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3/20/2010

Ron Paul Is Right

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3/12/2010

The Libertarian Athlete

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3/10/2010

May a Libertarian Occupy a Rent-Controlled Apartment?

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2/27/2010

Our Little Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (Kill ’em All!)

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2/15/2010

Justice Department Goes After Gates’ Foundation

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2/15/2010

Repeal Rent Control

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2/5/2010

Is ‘Academic Freedom’ a Special Kind of Freedom?

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2/3/2010

Destroying New York

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2/1/2010

The Polish Ham Question

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1/23/2010

Contra Horwitz

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1/20/2010

Libertarian Basics

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11/30/2009

Against the Armies of Multiculturalism and ‘Social Justice’

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11/17/2009

Hey, Diversityites

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11/11/2009

Striking Back

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10/28/2009

Enroll at Walter Block U.

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10/27/2009

Walter Block vs. ‘Diversity’

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10/15/2009

Anti-Tax Academic

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8/20/2009

Privatizing Rivers

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7/27/2009

The Name-That-Depression Contest

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7/14/2009

What Should We Call the Economic Crisis?

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6/19/2009

No More Commie or Fascist Highways

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5/22/2009

How I Offended the Diversitarians

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4/20/2009

No More Commie Highways

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4/17/2009

Dear MADD:

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4/14/2009

‘Diversity’ Is Thought Control

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3/23/2009

The Man Who Introduced Me to Murray Rothbard

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3/10/2009

Enough With the ‘Diversity’

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3/9/2009

Sue for Libel?

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12/29/2008

J’Accuse

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12/23/2008

Battling Political Correctness

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12/16/2008

No Justice, No Peace

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12/11/2008

Walter Block vs. Anonymous

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12/9/2008

Block to Fok

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12/8/2008

Social Justice in Baltimore

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12/6/2008

Walter Block and the Male-Female Pay Gap

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12/5/2008

Afraid To Debate

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12/3/2008

Block and His Readers

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12/1/2008

Posner vs. Block

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11/29/2008

This Book Is So Me

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11/26/2008

The Idea Police vs. Walter Block

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11/18/2008

Is Fractional-Reserve Banking Fraudulent?

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11/6/2008

The Danger of Fractional-Reserve Banking

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11/1/2008

He Gets Letters

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9/23/2008

Palinpalooza

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9/11/2008

One Cheer for the Republicans?

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9/7/2008

Leaving Iraq

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7/1/2008

Attention, Students

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6/28/2008

Ayn Rand Was Wrong

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6/19/2008

What Happened at the Libertarian Convention

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5/31/2008

Shills for World Government

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5/24/2008

Government Money for Grad School

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5/23/2008

Dear Barack

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5/16/2008

The Jews and Capitalism

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4/10/2008

My Daughter and Tibet

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3/31/2008

Victory in Iraq

It involves Ron Paul, say Vedran Vuk and Walter Block.

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1/21/2008

Libertarians in the MSM

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1/14/2008

Open Letter to Ron Paul

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12/28/2007

Hey, Libertarians

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12/27/2007

Hey, Economists

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12/25/2007

Ron Paul and the Fed

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12/21/2007

An Open Letter About Open Letters

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11/21/2007

Ron Paul and the Jews

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11/20/2007

Ron Paul, Israel, and the Jews

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11/3/2007

Why Not Ron Paul?

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10/29/2007

Should Ron Paul Accept Matching Funds?

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10/1/2007

Economic Ignoramuses

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9/10/2007

The Trouble With Democracy

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8/25/2007

Memo to the NTU

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8/22/2007

Indians and ‘Human Rights’

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8/16/2007

Was the US Attack on Afghanistan Libertarian?

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7/30/2007

Libertarianism vs. War

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7/23/2007

Ron Paul’s Chances

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7/9/2007

National Basketball Association Newest Target of EEOC

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7/5/2007

National Basketball Association Newest Target of EEOC

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7/5/2007

Justice Department Goes After Gates

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7/3/2007

Like What You’re Reading?

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6/22/2007

The Trouble With Jesuits

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5/25/2007

An Open Letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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2/20/2007

Prof. Perlstein Is All Wet

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2/17/2007

My Iranian Friend

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2/6/2007

Cut the Murder Rate in New Orleans

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1/27/2007

The Nanny Corporation

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1/26/2007

Passing the Torch of Liberty

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12/22/2006

Saving Language

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12/21/2006

The Libertarian Big Tent

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12/6/2006

Deaths by Government: Another Missing Chapter

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11/27/2006

Driving to and from Jerusalem

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11/24/2006

Unions: Social Benefactors or Gangs of Thugs?

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11/10/2006

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians

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11/4/2006

Kill ‘Em All

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10/23/2006

Block Attacks Rockwell for ‘Extremism’

Walter Block has had it.

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7/28/2006

Nuclear Regulatory Confusion

James Levindis, Walter Block, and James Morrel on government.

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4/27/2006

Those Cartoons

A libertarian analysis from Walter Block.

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2/21/2006

Nuttynomics

Walter Block on the anti-propertyism of Steven E. Landsburg.

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10/19/2005

Sports Are Glorious, Rational, and Private

But beware creeping statism, says Walter Block.

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10/6/2005

Walter Block in Exile

Unfortunately, it means he has to watch socialist teevee.

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10/6/2005

The Evil of Unions

In the public as well as the private sector.

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9/14/2005

Don’t Give to the Red Cross

Walter Block on the mind, the market, and Katrina.

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9/12/2005

The Yellow Dog Contract

Bring back this heroic institution, says Walter Block.

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9/5/2005

Me and Katrina

Walter Block on private enterprise, the dead hand of the past, and weather socialism.

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9/3/2005

Airport Insecurity

Walter Block on the idea of government protection.

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8/1/2005

Language and Truth

The state seeks to sever that link; we must guard it, says Walter Block.

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5/28/2005

Federalism: Is It Libertarian?

Walter Block and Stephan Kinsella on centralizers and decentralizers.

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5/25/2005

Hoppe and Summers

Walter Block on a tale of two economists.

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4/11/2005

Memories of Murray

Walter Block on winning the Rothbard Medal of Freedom.

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3/7/2005

Want To Cure Poverty?

Get the government out of the market, says Walter Block.

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2/23/2005

Me and Hurricane Ivan

Thanks a lot, government.

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9/20/2004

The Time of My Life

Walter Block on teaching at the Mises University.

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8/24/2004

Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n Roll

And libertarianism.

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8/21/2004

Want To Help the Poor and Oppressed?

Encourage laissez-faire capitalism, you bleeding-heart liberal, says Walter Block.

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7/21/2004

Walter Block Goes Commie

Well, Kerry.

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7/8/2004

If You Have To Vote for a President

Walter Block on the candidates.

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6/28/2004

Thirteenth Floors

It's time for the empire to act, says Walter Block.

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4/5/2004

Social Justice

Walter Block on a scary concept.

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1/26/2004

In Defense of Scabs

Walter Block on the justifications for trade unions.

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1/5/2004

Is There a Right To Unionize?

Of course not.

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1/1/2004

The Death Penalty

Zap, says Walter Block.

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11/11/2003

Term Limits Hurt Female Politicians

Another silver lining from Walter Block.

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9/3/2003

Silver Linings

Walter Block replies to his critics.

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9/2/2003

Debate Between Walter Block and Roger White On Harry Browne’s Column on Hussein

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8/21/2003

A Silver Lining in Unjust Executions?

Walter Block pushes the libertarian envelope.

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8/18/2003

Second Thoughts on Drug Legalization

Would it mean more loot for the state?

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8/12/2003

Abusive Language, Taxes

And politicians. Article by Walter Block and Bill Barnett.

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7/12/2003

Feminist Sports Fraud

High-school boys are better than the top women athletes, says Walter Block.

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5/24/2003

Sneak Attack

Samuel L. Baker and Paul Craig Roberts on movie critics and Gods and Generals.

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3/5/2003

Turning Their Coats for the State

Walter Block on the pro-war ‘libertarians’ who, mirable dictu, are pro-aggression elsewhere.

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2/17/2003

APEE Vindicated

Bruce Benson replies to Walter Block. Walter adds a note.

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1/16/2003

Bloodthirsty ‘Libertarians’

Walter Block on why warmongers can't be pro-liberty.

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1/11/2003

Private Enterprise and the Fed

What should be the relationship?

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1/10/2003

Libertarian Warmongers

It's a contradiction in terms, says Walter Block. And here's Rothbard.

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1/6/2003

How I Became a Libertarian

Walter Block explains.

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12/4/2002

Market vs. State

It is the overriding distinction in economics and politics.

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7/19/2002

Federal Agent to Walter Block

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7/17/2002

New Thoughts on Drug Prohibition

Walter Block vs. a libertarian statist.

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7/12/2002

If at First You Don’t Secede

Try, try again.

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7/9/2002

Term Limits Make Me Sick

A Hoppean analysis from Walter Block.

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7/8/2002

Let the South Go

We could be a real help in the world, says Walter Block, if only we would undo the injustice of St. Abraham's war.

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6/20/2002

Secession and Slavery

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6/10/2002

Ideas Rule

For good or ill.

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6/7/2002

Don’t Take Your Daughter to Work

And other un-PC thoughts from Walter Block.

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6/6/2002

Looting Celebrities

Get voluntary contributions, Walter Block tells them.

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5/24/2002

Arm the Coeds

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11/10/2001

Boxing and Business School

The problem of ratings.

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9/27/2001

The Motor Vehicle Bureau

Walter Block confronts it.

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9/12/2001

Compassionate Conservatism

Is Walter Block defending the undefendable?

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9/4/2001

Stem Cells: a Libertarian Compromise?

Walter Block is, as always, provocative.

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9/3/2001

Keep the Penny, Toss the Fed

Walter Block on the criminals who killed this once-useful coin.

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8/29/2001

Clean, Cool Private Water

Government water means trouble, in Canada and everywhere.

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8/3/2001

Heroic Hunt Farms

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8/3/2001

Four Firemen Die in Socialist Fire

Worse, two of them were women. Walter Block on the lessons we can draw.

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7/27/2001

The Libertarian Axiom

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6/28/2001

here’s Rothbard

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