A truly moral justification for property rights in space.
Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips is the founder of the Texas Institute for Property Rights. Brian has been defending property rights for nearly thirty years. He played a key role in defeating zoning in Houston, Texas, and in Hobbs, New Mexico.
He is the author of three books: Individual Rights and Government Wrongs, The Innovator Versus the Collective, and Principles and Property Rights.
Visit his website at texasipr.com.
Let’s Create Opportunities for All Texas Students
Freedom enables opportunities. School choice creates more freedom for parents and students.
Government vs Private Schools: Better by What Standard?
It is time to enable parents to have the freedom to choose the school for their children through school choice.
Capitalists on the Moon
The essence of Jacobin Magazine’s argument is that it isn’t fair that some get to enjoy things most of us can’t afford. If everyone can’t enjoy luxuries, then nobody should be allowed to. This is an example of what Ayn Rand called “hatred of the good for being the good.”
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
It is rare that a book can objectively present the facts and then draw all of the wrong conclusions. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017, is one such book.
A Sad Story Isn’t an Argument for the Welfare State
Motivating us to feel sorry for the poor and down trodden allows the Leftists to cash in their trump card—the widespread belief that we have a moral obligation to serve those in need.
Don’t Confuse School Choice with Educational Freedom
While school choice isn’t the ideal, it isn’t a compromise to supports such policies.
Systemic Racism Targets Capitalism and Freedom
The goal of the systemic racism crusaders isn’t the elimination of racism.
Proud to be a Real Estate Investor
Investors should be proud of what they do.
Tenants Have No Special Rights
The advocates of “tenants’ rights” imply that tenants have rights that are separate and distinct from landlords and other individuals.
Modern-day Luddites
Modern-day Luddites oppose a different type of progress—gentrification.
Preservation vs. Affordable Housing
Historic preservation is a pretense for dictating how others may or may not use their property.
Free Market Solutions to the Housing Crisis
The political, economic, and moral case for a free market in housing.
When Defenders of Property Rights Are Its Own Worst Enemies
Many attempts to defend property rights are founded on the wrong premises. The result, unfortunately, is ultimately destructive to the cause.
The Coercive “Solution”
Do as I say, or else you will be fined or sent to prison.
Incentivizing Bad Behavior: HUD, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae
To this day, private companies are castigated for “predatory lending.” Yet, it was government policy that incentivized loans to those who couldn’t afford to repay them.
Waiving Big Pharma’s Intellectual Property Rights is a Gross Injustice
A movement is underway to pressure the Biden Administration to waive global intellectual property (IP) rights to COVID vaccines developed in the United States.
The Need to Identify the Unseen
When politicians announce a new program or policy, they tell us of all the great benefits that will result.
Racism and Housing
Widespread racism can only occur when government mandates it.
The Landlord Shrugged
Government officials love to loudly proclaim the great benefits that tenants will enjoy by restricting and controlling landlords. The folly of their schemes will become clear when they discover that the landlord shrugged.
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