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Property Rights
OK…
Why didn’t the Tatas (and others who extol the virtues of the free market) acquire their land on the open market? (Rahul Siddharthan)
Now let me get this straight. It is not enough for Amit, Shruti, me, the editors of the Mint, etc. to just write in support of property rights for farmers. We should have [...]
Response on Harvard
Commenter Froginthewell says:
I don’t understand – Harvard is a private university, right? And this controversy is about propriety and not rights?
Well, yes. Harvard is a private university, but in this non-libertarian world, they are subject to various anti-discrimination laws which may or may not mandate or prohibit reserving a few hours for women in their gym. I am [...]
There is Still Time to Repent
Those who keep criticising us libertarians for being too dogmatic about our insistence on property rights as the source of other rights, look upon the weird controversy over reserving a few hours for women at the Harvard gym, and repent.
For, the truth is that a dogmatic respect for certain fundamental rights is what enables us [...]




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