Timothy Sandefur examines their lives, ideas, and influences in the context of their times. In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson’s The God of the ...

On March 23rd, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed the Second Virginia Convention in favor of mobilizing an armed force against the encroaching British military. Did you know… on March 23rd, 1775, Patrick ...

Before leading Virginia’s militia and becoming its first governor, Patrick Henry stood against British rule, including unjust taxes and restrictive laws. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar ...

Life in early colonial Virginia was as nasty, brutish, and short as it got for seventeenth- century Englishmen. Very few documents remain from common people for the whole of the seventeenth- century, ...

Jeannette Rankin was her generation’s most passionate voice against war, a suffragist, reformer, and relentless advocate for peace. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, remains one ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government. There is, I fear, no time like the present to remind ourselves of ...

Fearing for his country’s existence, Ingersoll chastises northern warmongers, their thoughtless voters, and reckless activists. Ingersoll wrote his letter “to explain…some of the views of the persons ...

Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one’s consent to be governed. Lysander Spooner was never one to respect a piece of unjust legislation. As we ...

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.