I check back in with the show to tell a funny story about my aunt and uncle’s annoying neighbors and how a private property society would handle their shenanigans.
In this short podcast episode, I plug my upcoming appearances, and explain how free speech and “the right to privacy” don’t exist unless the right in question is supported by general property rights. Either way, the government is illegitimate.
The Supreme Court handed down a very dissatisfying ruling in the Masterpiece case on Monday, holding in a 7-2 opinion that: “[t]he Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s actions in assessing a cakeshop owner’s reasons for declining to make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding celebration violated the free exercise clause.” This ruling, which was narrow in scope, failed to decide the fundamental issue in the case, which had more to do with compelled speech than free exercise. Of course, we libertarians understand that the real fundamental issue here is property rights, and neither compelled speech nor free exercise.
I am thrilled and honored to announce that the Liberty Weekly Podcast will now be featured on the Libertarian Institute in the Podcast’s section. In this episode I introduce myself and my work to the Libertarian Institute.
