Selected Publications

General

• “Life on the Edge,” review of James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Reason, June 2010
• “Democracy and Limited Government: The Unbreakable Partnership,” 2009 Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, India, June 13, 2009
• “No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice,” an essay on John Rawls, the social contract, and social justice from from Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings, ed. by Hartmut Kliemt and Hardy Bouillon (London: Ashgate, 2008)
• “Freedom Properly Understood”, An Address Presented before the Liberal Thinkers’ Conference, “The Future of Freedom,” 60 Years Liberal International, Hamburg, 17 November 2007
• “A liberdade corretamente compreendida” (Portuguese)
• “Bien comprendre la liberté” (French)
• “Freiheit Wohl Verstanden” (German)
• “The Literature of Liberty,” from The Libertarian Reader, edited by David Boaz (New York: The Free Press, 1998)[PDF, 39 pp.]
• “Madison and Multiculturalism: Group Representation, Group Rights, and Constitutionalism,” from James Madison and the Future of Limited Government, edited by John Samples (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002)
• “Saving Rights Theory from Its Friends,” from Individual Rights Reconsidered, edited by Tibor Machan (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2001) Reprinted from Individual Rights Reconsidered: Are the Truths of the U.S. Dec laration of Independence Lasting?, edited by Tibor R. Machan, with the permission of the publisher, Hoover Institution Press. Copyright 2001 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Globalization

• “Globalization Is Grrrreat!” Cato’s Letter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2002)
• “¡La Globalización Es Fabulosa!” Spanish
• “La Mondialisation? C’est Magnifique!” French
• “Globalizácia je superrr!” Slovak
• “Globalizacja jest bardzo dobra!” Polish
• “A Globalização é Fabulosa!” Portuguese
• “GLOBALIZAREA ESTE MINUNAT?!!!” Romanian
• “Globalizacija je suuuper!” Slovenian
• “Globalisasi membawa kemakmuran” Malay
• “Globalizacia Magarrria!” Georgian
• “Globalization and Culture: Homogeneity, Diversity, Identity, Liberty,” by Tom G. Palmer, published as an Occasional Paper by the Liberales Institut of Berlin [PDF, 30 pp. 5.6Mb]
• “Globalización y cultura: Homogeneidad, diversidad, identidad, libertad” Spanish translation of the above paper
• A Simple Mathematical Demonstration of the Benefits of Trade Based on Comparative Advantage: Download file
• “Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Personal Identity,” from Etica & Politica, Vol. V, No. 2. [PDF, 15 pp. 52Kb]

Human Rights Abuse

• “Getting Kareem Freed: A brave college student and a network of bloggers are stronger than many think, National Review, March 29, 2007
• The ‘Crime’ of Blogging In Egypt, , with Raja M. Kamal, Washington Post, February 21, 2007

Debate on Libertarianism

• “What’s Wrong With Libertarianism,” by Jeffrey Friedman from Critical Review, Vol. 11, No. 3. (Summer 1997)[PDF, 61 pp. 10.4Mb]
• “What’s Not Wrong With Libertarianism: Reply to Friedman,” from Critical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Summer 1998) [PDF, 22 pp. 22.8Mb]
• “The Libertarian Straddle: Rejoinder to Palmer and Sciabarra,” by Jeffrey Friedman from Critical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Summer 1998) [PDF, 28 pp. 27.2Mb]

Intellectual Property

• “Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified?: The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 13, no. 3 (Summer 1990) [PDF, 50 pp. 9.09Mb]
• “Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach,” Hamline Law Review, vol. 12 [PDF, 44 pp. 3.02Mb]

Other Topics

• Building a Free Society in Iraq , Cato’s Letter, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 2005)
• “Wohlfahrtsstaat ist nicht zukunftsfähig””: Interview in Die Presse (Austria’s premier quality paper) on the future of liberalism, January 10, 2005 [in German]
• In Greek: “«Το κράτος ευημερίας ΑΔΥΝΑΤΕΙ να έχει μέλλον».”
• Book Review of Michael Otsuka’s Libertarianism Without Inequality Reason, (January 2005)
• Book Review of Cass Sunstein’s and Stephen Holmes’s The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes Cato Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 1999).)
• Book Review of Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever National Review, (December 13, 2004)
• “Which Inequalities Are Ours to Arrange: A Response to Schmidtz,”Cato Unbound, March 2006
• “Do We Need a Government” (Comment on Papers by David Friedman, Birgir Thor Runolfsson, and Boudewijn Bouckaert, delivered at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting, Reykjavik, August 2005)
• “Book Review of Never A Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, ed. by Peter Berkowitz Cato Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall 2004)
• “Common Property?”, Boston Review Vol. 27, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 2002)
• “Limited Government After 9-11” with John Samples, Cato Policy Report, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (March/April 2002) [4 pp., 91 Kb]
• Book Review of David Miller’s On Nationality, Cato Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2. (Fall 1996) [PDF, 5 pp. 2.62Mb]
• “Freedom and the Law: A Comment on Professor Aranson’s Article,” with Leonard P. Liggio, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy [PDF, 14 pp. 2.38Mb]
• “Libertarianism in the Crosshairs,” Cato Policy Report, Vol. XXII, No. 4 (July/August 2000) [PDF, 5
  pp. 265Kb]
• “The Resources of Civil Society,” with Steven Scalet and David Schmidt, Revista Argentina de Teoría
  Jurídica de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Noviembre 1999
• “Myths of Individualism,” Cato Policy Report, Vol. XVIII, No. 5 (September/October 1996)
• “Quelques mythes sur l’individualisme” [French]
• “Митове за индивидуализма” [Bulgarian]
• “Census 2000: You May Already Be a Winner!,” Slate, April 4, 2000
• “Review of The Cost of Rights, Why Liberty Depends on Taxes,” from Cato Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2. (Fall 1999) [PDF, 6 pp. 50Kb]
• “G.A. Cohen on Self-Ownership and, Property, and Equality,” from Critical Review, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Summer 1998) [PDF, 27 pp. 1.57Mb]
• “Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and Social Theory,” Critical Review, vol. 1, no. 3 (Summer 1987) [PDF, 18 pp. 15.9Mb]
• “Twenty Myths About Markets,” Conference on “The Institutional Framework for Freedom in Africa,” Mont Pelerin Society Meeting, Nairobi, February 26, 2007
• “20 мита за пазарите*” Twenty Myths Abou Markets (Bulgarian; abridged slightly)
• A Checklist for Successful Public Speaking, Checklist to Accompany a Cato University Presentation on “Becoming a Better Public Speaker”
• My Brilliant Modeling Career for Dutch Agricultural Magazines,”Tractor Love Knows Only One Color of Red”