Private Property, Liberalism, and Human Flourishing
Private property enables individuals to pursue happiness through their own free choices. It also shields our individual and institutional projects from arbitrary power.
Yours, Mine, or Ours? Liberals Need a Theory of the State
When are state-based solutions the best we can do? It’s tempting to reach hasty conclusions, but technological change means the truth may be a moving target.
Liberalism does best when there are strong intermediate institutions between the state and the individual. The family is the oldest of them, and it still has no substitutes.