Jeffrey Miron and Vanessa Brown Calder remind us of the complexity of the abortion debate and offer a nuanced approach to ...

David Lewis Schaefer lays out the case that the sixteenth-​century libertarian work On Voluntary Servitude was written by ...

Max Skjönsberg reflects on the different understandings of liberty in the eighteenth century and the important relationship between political and civil liberty in the work of Joseph Priestley. Max ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

Strange things happen when political parties realize it’s possible to win elections with fewer votes. Structural explanations for polarization—from first past the post elections to the advent of ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty. Today Cicero is often read only by classical scholars and reluctant students, ...

The right of revolution, according to classical liberal thinkers, is derived from the natural right of self- preservation. Because the purpose of government is to protect individuals against assaults ...

War is the quintessential undertaking of the state, especially the modern centralized nation- state of the past five or six centuries. Indeed, the relationship between the two is encapsulated in the ...

The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...

Thomas Paine was one of the first people to argue in favor of what we now refer to as universal basic income. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Although Herbert Spencer has been rightly regarded as the most ...