When, and if, freedom progresses in the world, as states hopefully loosen their grip on societies, this process is unlikely ...

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) contains a defense of private property that makes use of the idea of labor-mixing. In §27, Locke writes: '[…] for this labour being the unquestionable ...

As I describe in my new memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, I have identified as a libertarian since I was a junior in college. I still do. But for at least the past ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

Libertarian political theory places individual liberty at its core, grounding social order in the twin principles of self-ownership and unfettered property rights. It insists that each person has ...

Libertarianism has always been an eccentric ideology. It has not always been an embarrassing one. In the not-too-distant past, to call oneself a libertarian might bring to mind figures such as Nobel ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0328 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0328 Copy URL ABSTRACT: This review essay evaluates The ...

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If you don’t make it a habit of perusing FiveThirtyEight’s comment section, aside from missing the many, many insights of our learned readers, you also probably missed the interesting debate that ...

Its libertarian-democratic, humanist, and anti-statist qualities permit anarchists to use valuable aspects of Marxism (such as the economic analysis or the theory of class struggle). Yet it still ...

Liberalism (in the classical sense) and its more austere cousin libertarianism, are fundamentally doctrines that put personal and political freedom at the heart of things. Liberalism is committed to ...