In his article “ Nations by Consent,” Murray Rothbard reiterated his argument that individual liberty does not envisage atomistic human beings isolated from the societies in which they live: Contemporary libertarians often assume, mistakenly, that individuals are bound to each other only by the nexus of market exchange. They forget that everyone is necessarily born into a family, a language, and a culture. Every person is born into one of several overlapping communities, usually including an ethnic group, with specific values, cultures, religious beliefs, and traditions. He is generally born