"Rights" is such a useful shorthand for something I do believe in that I don't completely avoid the term.

Same. I try not to be Comic Book Guy about it, but some people are deeply confused about the concept and so from time to time I uncork it.

This is explicitly not done by libertarians. I'd say we actually have one of the less totalizing world views.

Interesting! I suppose I should be more conservative in how I talk about these things -- in my head, I'm thinking of the "libertarians" that I know, who have a hodgepodge of attitudes; but that's presumably as misleading as when people are pwning the dems, or whatever.

Insofar as this is a sensible question: is there a canonical thing that captures the nuances of modern libertarian thought? Such that, if you read it, you could credibly feel like you knew what the mainstream views / philosophy was?