As a libertarian, I’m always slow to tell people what they should do. But if you care about politics and the ultimately far more powerful cultural direction of these United States, the new book by ...

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901. The word “up” implies rising from lower to higher. In his writings, Washington frequently ...

Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many -though not all- libertarians ...

Over at the publication famous for (among other impressive accomplishments) having a political columnist write about licking doorknobs at Gary Bauer's campaign headquarters, Gabriel Winant uses the ...

The debate on thick and thin libertarianism continues, and that's a good thing. Libertarians can only gain by the discussion. Often one comes to appreciate one's own philosophy more fully in the ...

Libertarianism, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

So Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is officially running for the Republican presidential nomination and surging in the polls. Apart from his hair, the oddest thing about Paul might be that he regularly ...

Argentinean journalist Soledad Vallejos’ new book explores the path of organizations that began to promote liberal ideals ...

Abstract. Unified libertarian theory (ULT) contends that libertarianism and realism are expressions of a single ethic shaped ...

Michael Kinsley rightly marks libertarianism as being “useful and undervalued” in American political discourse and this historian of the movement says thanks. However, Kinsley tries not to go too far.

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding ...