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

Jackson’s message looms large in the libertarian memory of early American history, but how often do we stop to interrogate his motivations?

Libertarians believe that, in politics, liberty is the most important value. Almost everyone wants freedom for themselves, but a libertarian also seeks to protect and expand the freedom of others.

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

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 ...

Join host Dr. Anthony Comegna on a series of libertarian explorations into the past. Liberty Chronicles combines innovative libertarian thinking about history with specialist interviews, primary and ...

Smith explains Kant’s basic justification of government and why he opposed the rights of resistance and revolution.

Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones Act of today? Caleb Petitt argues that a careful reading of Smith on the ...

Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where he covers financial technology and consumer credit. Before joining Cato, Zuluaga was ...

Born into a world of constant religious conflicts, Roger Williams believed the key to peaceful coexistence was absolute freedom of religion, a dangerous and new idea he tested in what would become ...

Why such a contradiction? Because he is frequently used as a boogeyman to be trotted out against “do- nothing- ism” when a crisis emerges. Depicted as a passive actor with regard to both the onset of ...

The economic fallacies tackled here are the zero sum game, that order requires design, & that consumption is the key to growth.