2007) and Initiative: Human Agency and Society (2000). Machan argued against animal rights in his widely reprinted paper "Do Animals Have Rights?" (1991) and in his book Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite (2004), but he also wrote on the ethics of animal treatment in the same work. He was also a skeptic as to whether governments are able to help with global warming and whether human beings have made significant contributions to climate change. On 1 May 2011, Machan was featured in a three-hour interview on C-Span 2's In Depth program as its selection of an author from the Western United States of America. Machan has argued in a 2008 article that unilateral American intervention has done more harm than good. Personal life Machan lived in Silverado Canyon, California. He was previously married to Marty Zupan. He had three children and four grandchildren. Bibliography The Libertarian Alternative (Nelson-Hall, 1974) Human Rights and Human Liberties (Nelson-Hall, 1975) "Recent Work in Ethical Egoism," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1979, pp. 1–15. The Libertarian Reader (Rowman & Littlefield, 1982) Individuals and Their Rights (Open Court, 1989) Capitalism and Individualism: Reframing the Argument for the Free Society (St. Martin's Publishing Co. & Harvester Wheatsheaf Books, 1990) Private Rights and Public Illusions (Transaction Publishers for the Independent Institute, 1994) Classical Individualism (Routledge, 1998) Generosity; Virtue in the Civil Society (Cato Institute, 1998) Libertarianism Defended (Ashgate, 2006) The Promise of Liberty (Lexington, 2009) (co-authored with Rainer Ebert) "Innocent Threats and the Moral Problem of Carnivorous Animals," Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (May 2012), pp. 146–59. See also Objectivism and libertarianism Libertarianism in the United States List of American philosophers References External links In Depth interview with Machan, May 1, 2011 and – Videos of Machan lecturing at the University of Heidelberg Archive at Mises.org Video debate with Tibor Machan Video interview with Tibor Machan 1939 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American philosophers American book editors American libertarians American male essayists American political philosophers American political writers Auburn University faculty Cato Institute people Chapman University faculty Claremont McKenna College alumni Critics of animal rights Hoover Institution people Hungarian emigrants to the United States Hungarian libertarians Libertarian theorists Mises Institute people New York University alumni Non-interventionism Objectivism scholars Objectivists University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Writers from Budapest 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male