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 ...

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 ...

What should libertarians think about the appropriateness of gay marriage? Of drug use? Of the NFL prohibiting players from protesting during the national anthem? Some think the answer to all of these ...

Has the libertarian moment finally arrived? Robert Draper asks that question in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. His answer: Yes! Young voters are leaning libertarian, he says, and a Rand Paul ...

I considered myself a libertarian for at least 10 years. The first time I heard the term was in 2000, watching Harry Browne in the third-party presidential debates. I knew next to nothing of ...

I believe Henry Olsen’s understanding of classical liberalism or libertarianism, as expressed in his Jan. 3 op-ed, “Libertarianism is losing its grip on conservative thought. Good.,” was incomplete. I ...

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.

"There's always tension between freedom and fairness," notes Christopher Beam in a New York magazine essay on Libertarianism. The 5,000+ word treatise makes its way through the political movement, ...

Tyler Cowen at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzlerland, in June 2017. (Zhang Ruomeng/ImagineChina) (Zhang Ruomeng - ImagineChina) Conservatism and libertarianism have long been ...

Whatever else happens, 2016 offers one of the most interesting presidential elections in decades. It already includes a libertarian from Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul, and a socialist from Vermont, ...