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, ...

Wollstonecraft argues the case for women’s rights entirely in libertarian terms of equal and natural rights.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be ...

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 ...

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

The modern state is a contingent historical development, born in blood- - not a permanent or inevitable feature of human society.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged.