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• Literature of Liberty a Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought
• Editorial Staff
• Associate Editors
• Editorial
• Bibliographical Essay: Henry B. Veatch, Natural Law: Dead Or Alive?
• I: Natural Law
• “nature” and “law” In Natural Law
• The Anatomy of Natural Rights
• Egoism and Rights
• The Is/ought Chimera
• Deriving “ought” From “is”
• Facts Vs. Value-laden Whims
• Is/ought and Probable Reasons
• Does Righteous Anger Imply Rights?
• Why Be Moral?
• Truth As an Objective Value
• Was the Revolution Objectively Necessary?
• Natural Law and State of Nature
• Natural Law and the State
• Natural Rights and Anarchism
• Dworkin On Rights
• Liberalism, Rights, and Abortion
• Rights and “mercy Killing”
• Rights and the “brain Drain”
• The Natural Law Right to Work
• Grotius: Contract and Natural Law
• Rights and Communication
• II: Autonomy, Privacy, and Authority
• Bureaucracy and “the Organization Man”
• Autonomy and Anarchism
• Autonomy and Taking Responsibility
• Autonomy, Motivation, and “buck-passing”
• Schooling For Conformity
• The Schoolroom Vs. Autonomy
• Obedience to Authority
• The Meaning of Privacy
• Privacy and Autonomy
• Privacy and Consent
• The Court and Privacy
• III: The Ambiguities of Liberty
• Clarifying Freedom
• Rehabilitating Mill's “harm Principle”
• Experiencing Freedom
• Do Offers Coerce Freedom?
• The Danger of “dangerousness”
• Freedom, Motivation, and Government Programs
• Freedom Vs. Determinism
• Negative Vs. Positive Freedom
• Smith and Utilitarian Economic Freedom
• Locke, Freedom, and Tacit Consent
• Religious Freedom
• Freedom, Existentialism, and Innocent Victims
• Does Censorship Harm Freedom?
• IV: Slavery
• Slavery, Ideology, and Subordination
• Slavery and Imperialist Ideology
• Enlightenment Liberalism Vs. Slavery
• The Anatomy of a Slave Revolt
• Colonial American Slave Law
• Jefferson On Slavery
• Slavery and the Poor
• V: Planning
• Regulation and the Warfare State
• Mail, Privacy, and Social Control
• Corporate State Capitalism: Coal
• French War “planification”: Chlorates
• Bureaucracy and British Regulation
• British Foreign Policy and Stagnation
• Political Decisions and the Economy
• Government, Labor, and Multinationals
• Black Markets Vs. Regulation
• Regulation Vs. Academic Autonomy
• Government Schools and Social Control
• The Economics of Charity
• International State Planning and Inflation
• Competition and Individual Knowledge

Associate Editors

John E. Bailey, III
Rome, Georgia

Randy Barnett
Chicago, Illinois

M.E. Bradford
University of Dallas

Alfred Cuzan
New Mexico State University

Douglas Den Uyl
Marquette University

Richard Ebeling
New York University

Edward C. Facey
Hillsdale College

M.E. Grenander
SUNY at Albany

John N. Gray
Jesus College, Oxford University

Malcolm Greenhill
Oxford University

R. Dale Grinder
Lawrence, Kansas

Walter Grinder
University College, Cork, Ireland

John Hagel
Cambridge, Mass.

Jack High
University of California, Los Angeles

Michael A. McGorrin
Chicago, Illinois

Tibor Machan
Reason Foundation, Santa Barbara

William Marina
Florida Atlantic University

Gerald O'Driscoll
New York University

Lyla O'Driscoll
New York Council for the Humanities

David O'Mahony
University College, Cork, Ireland

Ellen Paul
Miami University

Jeffrey Paul
University of Northern Kentucky

Joseph R. Peden
Baruch College, City University of New York

Douglas B. Rasmussen
University of San Antonio

Tommy Rogers
Jackson, Mississippi

Timothy Rogus
Chicago, Illinois

John T. Sanders
Rochester Institute of Technology

Danny Shapiro
University of Minnesota

Sudha Shenoy
University of Newcastle New South Wales

Bruce Shortt
Stanford University

Joseph Stromberg
University of Florida

David Suits
Rochester Institute of Technology

Paul Varnell
Dekalb, Illinois

Karen Vaughn
George Mason University

Alan Waterman
Trenton State College

Mark Weinburg
University of Chicago

Marty Zupan
Santa Barbara, California