Bill Glod concludes the essay series on paternalism by discussing why opposition to it matters, including but not limited to: ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Ludwig von Mises’s Liberalism, appreciating his humane account of classical liberalism in its political ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the fraught relationship between the media, marketing, and government, and the complex implications for truth, power, and propaganda.

We’ve all heard someone say, “It’s my right!” when they feel their freedom is being limited. But individual rights are often taken for granted in modern democracies—usually only noticed when they’re ...

“I say to you, my prohibition friends, your movement is doomed to defeat, because you build on a foundation of sand, on a perverted principle.” At the national level, alcohol prohibition was an ...

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 ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Although Herbert Spencer has been rightly regarded as the most ...

Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues. And it can be justified by libertarian principles. Still skeptical? Well, here are three ...

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 ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...