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.

The non- aggression axiom is an ethical principle often appealed to as a basis for libertarian rights theory. The principle forbids “aggression,” which is understood to be any and all forcible ...

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 ...

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 ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius.

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 ...

Throughout the first 150 years of America’s independence, political leaders and the public alike sought to keep the country out of armed conflicts that did not have direct relevance to the nation’s ...

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.