Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

I'm blogging this week about my new book Natural Property Rights, published with Cambridge University Press and available for purchase now digitally and in hardbound version, at a variety of ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.” (See p. 79 of her response to written questions.) Jackson’s answer comes immediately after this Q ...

A Terror Attack in Washington, D.C. Audio By Carbonatix George Will’s latest column uses the nomination of Judge Gorsuch as the occasion for an argument about ...

President Obama’s insistence that Americans have a right to healthcare has drawn predictable criticism from American conservatives, who insist that good health should be a private luxury reserved for ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will receive enough votes in the Senate today to join the Supreme Court as the first African-American woman Justice. Jackson is qualified by any traditional ...

We hear a lot about natural rights these days. Talk show pundits and concerned citizens in town halls express barely-controlled outrage at the denial of their civil liberties. Government forces, it ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent scholarship has demonstrated that the language of subjective natural rights can be found in a wide variety of medieval juristic and ...

So, here we are in America, some 248 years later, and Americans are being told that they own nothing . . . not their lives, liberty, or property. Not too long ago the government told us that we had no ...