by Michael Levin

About the author: Michael Levin is a contributing editor of the Rothbard- Rockwell Report, a newsletter published monthly by the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California.

The capital punishment debate is heating up. Because the Bronx District Attorney has vowed never to seek death no matter how heinous the offense, the Governor of New York recently barred him from trying a carjacker who killed a policeman. . . . Not that the average person cares what the American Philosophical Association is up to, but its actions are a good guide to liberal-elite thinking, and I am told it is ready to condemn “legal murder.” (One of America’s leading abolitionists is a philosophy professor, Hugo Bedau.) It’s a good time for friends of liberty to clarify their view of...