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

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 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 ...

“[The House] was excited at the novelty and boldness of his…doctrines…Gentlemen from the south…heard the high priest of revolution singing his war song ...

“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 ...

While John L. O’Sullivan and the loco- Young Americans naively ignored tensions, they preached the unity of liberty, democracy, and American nationalism. In 1837, John Lewis O’Sullivan and his brother ...

“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 ...