Born into slavery and known for much of her early life as “Mumbett,” Elizabeth Freeman’s origins are mostly unrecorded. She wielded the Massachusetts Constitution as a weapon against her bondage, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As the debate around guns becomes increasingly divisive, it is important to know the original purpose of the Second Amendment.

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 ...

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