In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the ...

While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa. Libertarian Lens on Film is a column that ...

The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...

On top of the failure of his economic agenda, FDR had a dismal record on civil liberties, privacy, and free speech. The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, ...

Michael J. Clark has a PhD in economics from George Mason University and is an associate professor at Hillsdale College, where holds the Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free Market Education and ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Miles Smith IV ...

Klein assesses George Will’s two most renowned books, 36 years apart, Statecraft as Soulcraft (1983) and The Conservative Sensibility (2019), finding some changes upon an underlying continuity—rather ...

Turgot, a French statesman, economist, and early advocate of economic liberalism, was one of the first to ponder how we achieve moral and material progress. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual ...

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 ...

Vincent Geloso is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Du Grand Rattrapage au ...