James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes’s Why Postliberalism Failed argues that postliberalism’s rejection of individual agency, liberal democracy, economic freedom, and subsidiarity in favor of ...

Libertarianism.org is the Cato Institute’s treasury of resources about the theory and history of liberty. We offer a wealth of original essays and classic reprints by great classical liberals and ...

Anti-federalist Robert Yates (under the pseudonym Brutus) argues against the constitution, foreseeing many of the expansions of federal power. To the Citizens of the State of New York, The first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius. Any American high schooler can tell you that the separation of powers ...

Rutherford B. Hayes will forever be remembered as the president who ended Reconstruction. In the process he abandoned the Civil War Republican Party’s commitment to equal rights for the former slaves ...

Libertarians frequently disagree about the status of intellectual property. D’Amato explores the views of four major libertarian thinkers. The issue of intellectual property rights represents a ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. Editor’s Note Libertarian Lens on Film is a column that explores ...

Since its beginnings in the Enlightenment era, libertarianism has been a cosmopolitan ideology. Yet, some people in the libertarian camp have made calls to “secure the border” or to restrict ...

The subject divides itself into first, “The Alien Act,” secondly, “The Sedition Act.” Of the “Alien act,” it is affirmed by the resolution, 1st. That it exercises a power no where delegated to the ...