Dan Klein prompts us to think about the relationship between superiors and inferiors, and how this sheds light on our ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

The ancient Indian writer Kautilya had more knowledge of economic affairs than any thinker for over a thousand years. The Sanskrit Arthashastra, a manual for establishing a prosperous state written in ...

How a group of veterans restored democracy to a small town. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on ...

The American Founders saw themselves as engaged in a long English tradition of resistance to tyranny. They designed the Constitution to avoid tyrannies of both democratic and autocratic varieties.

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty. Today Cicero is often read only by classical scholars and reluctant students, ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Although Herbert Spencer has been rightly regarded as the most ...

In the wake of the Norman Conquest of England, new institutions arose that would lay the foundations for English, and eventually American, self- government. David Edwards hold an M.A. in history 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. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

On Liberty is not merely a political text explaining the intricacies of how the state ought to act. It is a love letter to the individual virtues of intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and open- ...