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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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