A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end ...

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow- governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves. For our final number, we turn to Spooner’s ...

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.

“There is an inherent difficulty in fixing limits to incorporeality. The regions of thought, like those of the air, are the common property of all.” When challenged by a flurry of letters- to- the- ...

Paine urged the colonists not to replicate the aspects of the English constitution that caused it to degenerate.

Our author puts forth a romanticized, mythologized version of history to defend the claim that love is the result of imagination, inequality, and difference. Godwin’s thoughts on the nature of ...

Abraham Lincoln’s address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois. In this speech, delivered three months after a pro- slavery mob killed newspaper editor and abolitionist Elijah Parish ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2025. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past ...