After I wrote a critical history of libertarian thought, I’ve sometimes been told that the book is of marginal interest because libertarianism is a marginal movement — it attracts scammers and cranks, ...

Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

Andrew Koppelman has posted a response to participants in the Balkinization symposium on his recent book Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. I ...

"There's always tension between freedom and fairness," notes Christopher Beam in a New York magazine essay on Libertarianism. The 5,000+ word treatise makes its way through the political movement, ...

David Boaz was the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a prominent libertarian think tank based in Washington D.C., when he published “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom.” ...

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” This sentiment was expressed by President Ronald Reagan, whose conservative bona fides need no defense. Readers of this paper ...

Libertarians often see themselves as opponents of social conservatism. The presidential ticket of the Libertarian Party is running against social conservatives this year. But the highest-ranking ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

Libertarianism is a rational reconstruction of America’s founding principles. In other words, it’s as American as apple pie. You don’t need to take my word for it. The Declaration of Independence ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A libertarian and a conservative go to dinner. America’s numerous problems and challenges are on the menu. The conservative laments the woeful state of our ...