Richard Epstein knocks another one out of the park

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/75711

There is absolutely nothing I could possibly add to this article that would improve or clarify its content.

Richard Epstein is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at Hoover. He is also the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, intellectual property, and property rights. His most recent books are The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act (Hoover Press, 2009) and Supreme Neglect: How to Revive the Constitutional Protection for Private Property (Oxford Press, 2008).