Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many -though not all- libertarians ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

Longtime Cato Institute head Ed Crane died this month. Many in the movement he helped build have trouble seeing Trump clearly.

Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, D.C.'s most prominent think tank. For decades, ...

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 ...

Libertarianism, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference on Jan. 27, 2015. Rand Paul’s leadership in the Senate – on the budget, regulation, privacy, criminal justice, and foreign policy – and his ...

"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, ...

As I describe in my new memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, I have identified as a libertarian since I was a junior in college. I still do. But for at least the past ...

Libertarianism includes a spectrum of beliefs about the role of the state. Classical liberalism supports a minimal state with accountability and predictability. Social Security's intergenerational ...

Is the era of tech bros and techno-libertarianism over? Depending on how you look at it, tech poster boys Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk either caused or could not contain body blows not only to ...