J. C. Smart’s utilitarianism offers a clear moral framework centered on maximizing happiness, but Bernard Williams’s critique ...

In light of Constitution Week, Sarah Thomas reflects on the achievement of American constitutionalism by placing the US ...

In Dostoevsky's novella Notes from Underground, the narrator, who is commonly referred to as the Underground Man, fails to see that genuine freedom requires self-responsibility, human connection, and ...

Hoskins and O’Driscoll explore the role of property rights in economic development ...

Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues. And it can be justified by libertarian principles. Still skeptical? Well, here are three ...

Nick Wilson compares the political, social, and moral thought of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

Mussolini attempted to remake the Italian mind, taking a personal interest in applying the twin tools of censorship and propaganda. The unique totalitarian project of Italian Fascism reposed on a ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Proudhon’s conception of federalism permits us a fuller understanding of ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Editor’s Note ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa. Editor’s Note Libertarian Lens on Film is ...

How a group of veterans restored democracy to a small town. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” is a quote commonly, and incorrectly, attributed to Thomas Jefferson. It was, in fact, never ...