Great video: Anne Coulter tries to make the conservative case against liberty
This is exactly why many who are inclined toward free market thinking are falling increasingly into a more libertarian camp than a modern conservative camp these days. Modern conservatism, embodied in...
View ArticleCasket Case Shows Economic Liberty to Be Alive and Well
Ilya Shapiro Last week, the Institute for Justice scored a resounding victory for the right to earn an honest living in an unlikely case that pitted woodworking monks against the Louisiana State Board...
View ArticleEducation And Science • Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty
Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gol … +Paul&mk=1 by Ron Paul – Daily PaulPublished : April 08th, 2013 A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the...
View ArticleThe Non-Aggression Principle (i.e., Respecting Liberty) is Necessary and...
Matt Zwolinski tells us that “Many libertarians believe that the whole of their political philosophy can be summed up in a single, simple principle … the ‘non-aggression principle’ or ‘non-aggression...
View Article“The System of Liberty” by our own George H. Smith
George H. Smith has written a new book. For readers of Libertarianism.org, this is welcome news indeed. With his weekly “Excursions in the History of Libertarian Thought,” George shows off his...
View ArticleThe Cato Home Study Course, Vol. 1: The Ideas of Liberty
The classical liberal, or libertarian, approach to morality and politics brings together related themes that will be both placed in their historical context and woven together more tightly in the...
View ArticleGeorge Smith’s Long-Awaited Book: The System of Liberty
David Boaz George H. Smith is one of the best-read, most insightful libertarians living today. He is the author of most of the Cato University Home Study Course, which you should definitely download....
View ArticleLiberty as Respect for Persons
1. The Task at Hand We have been asked — in all modesty! — to reground libertarian political theory in light of Matt Zwolinski’s objections to the non-aggression axiom. I infer we must either: (a)...
View ArticleHacking for Liberty
Jim Harper You’ve probably heard the old parable about the man looking for his car keys under a street lamp because the light is better there. I’ve regularly worried aloud about the government...
View ArticleThe Cato Home Study Course, Vol. 8 Part 1: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), one of the best known intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, is especially revered by civil libertarians (as well as by Margaret Thatcher) for his essay On...
View ArticleReligion • Re: The Future of Religious Liberty
"In a nation where fewer people truly practice religion, fewer people external to those communities will see any practical reason to protect the liberty of those who do." The beginning of sorrows…...
View ArticleRand Paul, the Confederacy, and Liberty
Revelations about the pro-Confederacy views of one of Rand Paul’s inner circle have libertarians once again discussing what exactly we should think about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and its place...
View ArticleFourth Circuit’s Liberty Ruling Deals a Hidden Blow to Obamacare
Michael F. Cannon Obamacare had a rough day in court yesterday. In Liberty University v. Lew, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against Liberty University’s challenge to various aspects...
View ArticleThe Cato Home Study Course, Vol. 12: The Modern Quest for Liberty
The final module of the Cato University curriculum examines the rebirth of libertarian thought from the 1940s onward. The collapse of classical liberalism in the face of both the collectivist...
View ArticleCivil Liberty and Social Bonds
Now what has been amiss in all the old arrangements? The evil of the old military and aristocratic governments was that some men enjoyed the fruits of other men’s labor; that some other persons’...
View ArticlePolice State • Liberty and Safety
Liberty and SafetyAndrew P. Napolitano When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally...
View ArticleGeorge Smith’s Long-Awaited Book: The System of Liberty
David Boaz George H. Smith is one of the best-read, most insightful libertarians living today. He is the author of most of the Cato University Home Study Course, which you should definitely download....
View ArticleLiberty as Respect for Persons
1. The Task at Hand We have been asked — in all modesty! — to reground libertarian political theory in light of Matt Zwolinski’s objections to the non-aggression axiom. I infer we must either: (a)...
View ArticleHacking for Liberty
Jim Harper You’ve probably heard the old parable about the man looking for his car keys under a street lamp because the light is better there. I’ve regularly worried aloud about the government...
View ArticleThe Cato Home Study Course, Vol. 8 Part 1: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), one of the best known intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, is especially revered by civil libertarians (as well as by Margaret Thatcher) for his essay On...
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