 This account of the political philosophy of Robert Nozick is fundamentally an account of the rights-oriented libertarian doctrine that Nozick presents in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. That doctrine is the Nozickean  doctrine.[2]  Nozick never attempted to further develop the views that he expressed in  ASU,[3]  and he never responded to the extensive critical reaction to those views. Nozick did seem to repudiate at least some aspects of the ASU doctrine in The Examined Life and The Nature of Rationality (Nozick 1989: 286–296). Nozick’s real or apparent repudiation in these works turned on his doctrine of symbolic utility which cannot be examined  here.[4]  At later yet points in his life Nozick downplayed his apparent repudiation of political  libertarianism.[5]  In a 2001 interview, he said: