Tocqueville warns of the dangers from a nurturing government “extending its arm over the whole community.” I had remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, ...

The objections to government interference, when it is not such as to involve infringement of liberty, may be of three kinds.

In an exclusive interview with Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org, James Tooley revisits his extensive research on education in the ...

Anarchism is a theory of society without the state in which the market provides all public goods and services, such as law and order. Although most anarchists oppose all large institutions, public or ...

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 ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty.

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion.

Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a ...

This morning, I did a short interview with the Cato Institute about the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee. The immediate stimulus for the conversation was the recent Swiss proposal to pay ...

Edmund Burke, an Irish- born British politician and philosopher, served in the House of Commons for almost 30 years and authored an extensive and influential body of speeches and books. Conventionally ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate.