"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, ...

David Boaz, a writer and scholar who for nearly half a century was a leading voice of libertarianism, a political philosophy that he labored to move from the margins to the mainstream of American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Doherty, a journalist, historian of the libertarian movement and longtime senior editor at Reason magazine, died after an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’re now less than three weeks from Inauguration Day, and libertarians are anxious. On the one hand, the return of Donald Trump ...

David Boaz was the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a prominent libertarian think tank based in Washington D.C., when he published “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom.” ...

Two prominent left-liberals who have spent much of their careers critiquing libertarianism recently wrote pieces indicating they now think they have underrated libertarian ideas. Harvard law Prof.

Andrew Koppelman has posted a response to participants in the Balkinization symposium on his recent book Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. I ...

Most politically attuned Americans will have some idea of what libertarianism is. Some think of it as an embrace of “business” or “capitalism” in all its forms; others as the anything-goes morality of ...

Rand Paul did not live up to his father’s legacy and promise. Not only did he fail to get the Republican nomination, but he did not even shape the debate. Pundits said the libertarian moment had ...