Yet Washington used jealousy favorably with reference to “a free people.” Since Matson follows the lead of Smith, I wondered ...

Bill Glod concludes the essay series on paternalism by discussing why opposition to it matters, including but not limited to: ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Ludwig von Mises’s Liberalism, appreciating his humane account of classical liberalism in its political ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the fraught relationship between the media, marketing, and government, and the complex implications for truth, power, and propaganda.

Although relatively few libertarians are pacifists, libertarians tend to be substantially less bellicose than the average citizen. Modern libertarianism has deep roots in classical liberalism, an ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith’s ...

Libertarianism ought to be appealing to black Americans, who have suffered greatly at the hands of the United States government. So why isn’t it more popular? Throughout the history of the United ...

Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. Kelley, John L. Bringing the Market Back In: The Political ...