At a recent conference on conservative philosophy, I told another professor that I’d just written a critical history of libertarianism. “You’re too late,” he said. “After Trump, libertarianism is dead ...

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 ...

After I wrote a critical history of libertarian thought, I’ve sometimes been told that the book is of marginal interest because libertarianism is a marginal movement — it attracts scammers and cranks, ...

Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming ...

Whatever else happens, 2016 offers one of the most interesting presidential elections in decades. It already includes a libertarian from Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul, and a socialist from Vermont, ...

Tired of being betrayed by Republicans who promise this and that, but never deliver? Tired of the Marxists masquerading as Democrats and running as members of the party of the people? Try a third way; ...

In the United States of America, the “libertarian moment” — if it ever existed — was squelched by the populism, nationalism, and socialism of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. However, in Latin America ...

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 ...

Here is a puzzle: Why would the Libertarian Party, which will be nominating a presidential candidate at its national convention in Washington this month, invite former president Donald Trump — the ...

At the Cato Institute, he argued against government interference in Americans’ lives, including policing their drug use, and supported legal equality for gay people. By Sam Roberts David Boaz, an ...