Does the government have any right, or any compelling interest, in regulating my private behavior? The libertarian’s default answer is, “no.” In many, if not most cases, the libertarian is correct. There are, however, some important exceptions. Obviously, if I am beating my wife, then the community, through its government, has not only a right, but a duty to stop me, and to exact just punishment for my crime. Libertarians almost always agree with us on this. Just as obviously, the government has no right to peek through my windows (or to do the high-tech version thereof) to see what I am reading, or to discover my political opinions, or to see with whom I am associating, without a warrant based on probable cause (for example, communicating with terrorists). There are, however, situations that are not clearly cut and dried. Illegal drug use, for example, is one of them. It causes me no direct harm if my neighbor is intoxicating himself with various...(Read Full Article)