"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 ...

In the United States, we are both proud of our governing system and suspicious of it at the same time. Right now, it's the suspicion that's winning out. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight blog picks out ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” ...

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 ...