Per Bylund discusses the confiscatory nature of "national defense," the ability of individuals to defend themselves without state intervention, common ground between Left and Right anarchism and the debate about whether private property can exist without the state.

Clifford F. Thies, the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, discusses expanding the definition of property rights to create a market solution for environmental problems, the utility of a cap and trade system if governments are excluded from resource allocation decisions, concerns that environmental causes will take precedence over civil liberties and the unfair advantage carbon caps give to developed nations over third-world competitors.

Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity, discusses the skin deep congressional support for the "audit the Fed" bill, the need to eliminate rather than curtail the Federal Reserve System, why prediction of the dollar's imminent demise are probably premature, overly optimistic Fed announcements about financial recovery and the difference between the public statements and private candor...