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Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.
Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...
While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate.
This morning, I did a short interview with the Cato Institute about the libertarian case for a Basic Income Guarantee. The immediate stimulus for the conversation was the recent Swiss proposal to pay ...
Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is 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 origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius.
Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion.
Was Kant somehow responsible for the rise of Nazism? Smith explores two points of view on this issue.
In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty.
As the debate around guns becomes increasingly divisive, it is important to know the original purpose of the Second Amendment.