“Today the tenets of this nineteenth-century philosophy of liberalism are almost forgotten. In the United States “liberal” means today a set of ideas and political postulates that in every regard are the opposite of all that liberalism meant to the preceding...
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The Libertarian Legacy of Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies
by Richard Ebeling | Dec 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On September 16, 1939, barely more than two weeks after the beginning of the Second World War in Europe with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, the “Austrian”-oriented British economist Lionel Robbins finished the preface to his short book, The Economic...
TGIF: On Liberty and Security
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 2, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin's famous words are often quoted because, alas, they are always relevant. Whether Franklin meant what libertarians take him to have...
There Is No ‘Master Planner’ Behind the State’s Curtain
by David Hathaway | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
It’s the state. There is no master plan. There is no big brain running the show. The grand, seemingly “coordinated,” societal evil we observe is just a product of the state. It comes from the state sanctioning a market for evil; a market for the proceeds of theft; a...
TGIF: Midterm Blues
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
As midterm elections go, for champions of individual liberty this one could have been worse. I see two bright spots. The likely slim majority of Republicans in the House could -- maybe -- produce a measure of gridlock on domestic spending and regulation, and the blame...

Liberty, Freedom, and Sovereignty Aren’t On Today’s Ballot
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Today, once again, we have the most important, crucial election in the history of mankind. The fate of the planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe depends upon it. Even God is worried, praying. Maybe it will provoke an extinction level event. I, personally, will...

Liberty Beyond Borders
by Kym Robinson | Nov 3, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Awareness and conversation about liberty is flourishing, some of it a little more focused on particular messaging than others. Most are fixated on the United States, whether as a criticism of the empire and its wars or a romantic aspiration of converting the nation...

Libertarian Principles Perfectly Complement Clausewitz’s Theories of War
by Finn Andreen | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many Westerners to consider the realism of Carl von Clausewitz’s classic On War. The Prussian military theorist famously wrote that: “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” Though this...