"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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

David Boaz, a writer and scholar who for nearly half a century was a leading voice of libertarianism, a political philosophy that he labored to move from the margins to the mainstream of American ...

There are a significant, but hopefully only a small percentage of libertarians who maintain that utilizing the ballot box is incompatible with our philosophy. What are their arguments? First and ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, Argentina, a country blessed with vast natural resources, was arguably one of the wealthiest nations in the world. But after the Great Depression, successive governments ...

In my previous three posts, I have discussed the problems with left-wing libertarian philosphy. I now discuss the other end of the spectrum, and its problems. Hans Hoppe Conservatives: According to ...

Anyone familiar with the typical behavior of capital-L Libertarians understands exactly what Foster meant, and why his comment was funny. For years, libertarians have been too cool for school. More ...