They are often asked in debates over issues libertarians find especially important—like inheritance law, income ...

A small collection of works about F. A. Hayek to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize.

A discussion with Don Boudreaux about the legacy of F.A. Hayek. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past 25 years he has worked to promote the principles of a free ...

The autodidact and polymath Herbert Spencer was one of the most globally renowned philosophers of the 19th century. Over his 60- year career, English philosopher Herbert Spencer discussed a myriad of ...

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.

To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any. For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self- propriety, else could he not be himself; ...

A discussion on The Individualists with Matt Zwolinski. In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Matt Zwolinski about his recent book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle ...

“Battles,’ said Voltaire, ‘are not lost by [numbers] of killed and wounded, but by the effect…on the survivers.’ The same holds now of the principle of freedom.” The United States Magazine & ...

Our ignorance of the things that affect our well- being demonstrates the importance of freedom in enabling us to achieve our goals. F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic ...

“The remedy for these vast and continually increasing evils cannot be doubted…It is to simplify government. It is to reduce it to its proper sphere…” In 1838, the two great American political parties ...

“Should tyrants take it into their heads to emancipate any of you, remember that your freedom is your natural right…God will dash tyrants…into atoms.” It is well known to the Christian world, that ...