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The crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Palestinian question, and the crux of the Palestinian question is: who justly owns the land of Israel or Palestine? The parties involved in the Middle East struggle are cognizant of the centrality of the land question. Volume 5, Number 4 (1981) Halbrook, Stephen P. “Alienation of a Home-land: How

A significant portion of the conflicting leftist ideologies of the contemporary Middle East -in particular, the socialist philosophies of both Arabs and Israelis-is an outgrowth of nineteenth-century social theories and philosophies of history originating from a group of individuals who at one point constituted the Young Hegelians. Moses Hess,

The riddle goes, “If a tree fell in the woods and no one was around to hear it, would it make a sound?” But perhaps a more appropriate question is, “Would anyone care?” In answering the latter question, we can determine whether the falling tree is of any concern at all. After all, if no one is bothered by an event, and moreover, no one acts on the

The idea of externalities is highly intuitive; it makes sense that the actions of one affect the happiness of others. A positive externality occurs when one’s actions benefit people who were not directly involved in exchange. Think of the benefit a man receives when passing a beautiful woman on the sidewalk. On the other hand, a negative

[Originally ran as “Gun Laws” on October 15, 1970 in The Libertarian Forum .] The indifference which seems to pervade many libertarian circles regarding recent gun control laws—laws which are likely to forge the final links on the chains shackled to the average American citizen—is dangerously surprising. Apparently no one perceives the importance

From The Journal of Libertarian Studies , Vol. V, No. 4 (Fall 1981): In the United States the right of Israel to exist is taken for granted almost apriori, and the query of who justly owns the land has never really been seriously debated. When the United Nations declared Zionism to be a form of racism, the U.S. threatened to “take its marbles and