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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zwolinksi argues that libertarians are right to support private property, but also that private property is more complicated than we sometimes think.

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 ...

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

Ulysses S. Grant rode his popularity to political power. “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each president did wrong while in office. While ...

Palmer takes on the misconceptions of individualism common to communitarian critics of liberty.

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 ...