Fundamental property rights are under assault. Your right to say who can be on your property, and what they can do there, will be limited to the point of irrelevance unless the Supreme Court agrees to ...

Property rights depend on the principle that you own yourself. If you own yourself, then you own the fruit of your labor. A medieval hunter cuts a branch and sharpens it into a spear. Now he has ...

Our Founders were obsessed with protecting property rights. They knew if we could not own property, the state would soon control it and, in turn, us. The 4th, 5th and 14th amendments were written to ...

For another analysis of the Commission on Unalienable Rights’ draft report, see “Why you shouldn’t dismiss Mike Pompeo’s report on human rights,” by Drew Christiansen, S.J., published on July 23. In a ...

Villagers shout for their farms and villages during protests against the Lebadaung copper mine project in Sarlingyi township in Myanmar on September 12, 2012 (Soe Zeya Tun/Courtesy Reuters). In a ...

Property owners have become all too accustomed to attacks on their fundamental property rights. Fortunately, late last week the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in upholding these fundamental ...

Thanks again to Eugene for letting me blog at the VC this week about my new book—Natural Property Rights, published with Cambridge University Press and available for purchase now digitally and in ...

The United States was ranked 17th in The Heritage Foundation’s latest Index of Economic Freedom. That’s not what Americans should expect from a nation whose foundation is built upon freedom. How do we ...

The Duke Center for Firearms Law recently published my new essay on "Guns, Property Rights, and Takings." My piece is part of a symposium on "Privatizing the Gun Debate." Several additional ...

The conventional wisdom has long held secure private property rights to be a critical ingredient of economic growth. At a micro level, secure property rights generate growth by incentivizing efficient ...