Many political and economic issues are complicated, but it’s easy to answer this question: What is libertarianism? As the great Murray Rothbard emphasizes over and over again, libertarianism is only part of a correct natural law ethics. It says that you can use force only in response to force or the threat of force. You cannot kill or assault people or steal their property. There’s much more to morality than that, but that’s the libertarian answer to the basic question of political philosophy. As Murray explains in The Ethics of Liberty, It is not the intention of this book to expound or … Continue reading Left Libertarians Versus Reality