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New edition of “The Myth of Natural Rights”

Almost as old as “rights-talk” is skepticism about the existence of (natural) rights and justice. Such skepticism has been expressed by Plato’s Thrasymachus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ragnar Redbeard, and Max Stirner, the latter stating that “one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.”
In the 20th century the “reclusive libertarian iconoclast” [...]