Kathleen Touchstone

Kathleen Touchstone is a retired educator and author of Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics (University Press of America, 2006). Her recent papers include “Rand and the Austrians: The Ultimate Value and the Non-Interference” and “Charity, Childcare, and Crime: From Objectivist Ethics to the Austrian School”.

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Rand, Rothbard, and Rights Reconsidered

08/28/2010 Libertarian Papers Kathleen Touchstone

Volume 2, Article 18 (2010) Overview This paper looks at rights and the protection of rights from the minarchist and the anarchist perspectives. The small government view is represented by Objectivist...

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