The libertarian movement has lost its way over the past 60 years as it's shifted from Friedrich Hayek's classical liberal corrective to Depression-era central planning to Murray Rothbard's full-blown ...

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 ...

"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, ...

The Balkinization website is currently hosting a symposium on Northwestern University law Professor Andrew Koppelman's recent book Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by ...

This article examines four competing philosophical theories of the parental role within a libertarian framework: parental ...

“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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Libertarian philosophy has a certain appeal to many techies. Keep the government out of the boardroom AND the bedroom, keep government small, and out of the way of innovative price enterprise. Nice if ...

Nobody expects the Republican presidential nominee to be a libertarian purist, but it helps if he or she at least has a libertarian streak. In Rick Santorum’s case, he’s actively hostile toward ...

House Republicans, who refuse to raise the debt ceiling without a spending freeze, have persuaded themselves (ignoring their own economists) that defaulting on the national debt might not produce a ...