I don't really think he (or much of anyone) really holds "the pre-eminence of property rights over competing rights". This is a common "attack" many liberals m

I don't really think he (or much of anyone) really holds "the pre-eminence of property rights over competing rights". This is a common "attack" many liberals make against libertarian arguments and have been thinking about it for some time. What I think is really happening, and that appears to be a favoring of property over other rights, is that property rights can be more clearly and positively assessed as to whether or not they have actually been violated; so a "maybe yes-maybe no" decision on a speech issue, may clearly and positively be a violation on a property issue.