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 ...

Remembering America's most radical and definitive modern libertarian intellectual.

"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, ...

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, ...

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” This sentiment was expressed by President Ronald Reagan, whose conservative bona fides need no defense. Readers of this paper ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

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.” ...

Libertarianism is a rational reconstruction of America’s founding principles. In other words, it’s as American as apple pie. You don’t need to take my word for it. The Declaration of Independence ...

Marco Battaglia is running for Iowa’s 3rd District seat in the U.S. House. At the Iowa State Fair he summarized his Libertarian philosophy as "don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.” The ...

Most of the time during these recent elections we all heard the equivalent of: “Ain’t it awful!”, “If only the Republicans and Democrats could unite in facing the substantial problems of our day. . .” ...