Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not ...

For Rothbard – as for Locke – it is not the use of force that is disputable, but the use of force against peaceful and ...

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, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

This interview has been condensed and edited for style and clarity. Reason: Having been in the libertarian movement for nearly half a century, how do you assess the current state of libertarian ideas ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

"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, ...

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 ...

A little more than a year ago, a lifelong “libertarian” (quotes very much necessary) took stock of the movement and declared it “pretty much hollowed out.” For one thing, he wrote, it cannot “solve or ...