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 ...

In April, I wrote a post praising "abundance liberalism" (despite some reservations about it) and urging an alliance ...

Today, The Dispatch published my article on updating libertarian ideology. The piece was inspired, in part, by insightful articles on the same topic by Randy Barnett and Timothy Sandefur, though my ...

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.” ...

After I wrote a critical history of libertarian thought, I’ve sometimes been told that the book is of marginal interest because libertarianism is a marginal movement — it attracts scammers and cranks, ...

House Republicans, who refuse to raise the debt ceiling without a spending freeze, have persuaded themselves (ignoring their own economists) that defaulting on the national debt might not produce a ...

Nobody expects the Republican presidential nominee to be a libertarian purist, but it helps if he or she at least has a libertarian streak. In Rick Santorum’s case, he’s actively hostile toward ...

"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, ...

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 ...