In this essay, Bill Glod discusses how natural law theories of morality are in tension with classical liberalism when they ...

Adam Smith authorized the pursuit of honest income. But what should we do with that income? Max Laraia explores whether Peter ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo review Amir Naderi’s film The Runner, which explores themes of self-resilience, innovation, and voluntary exchange through the story of eleven-year-old Iranian orphan Amiro.

Baetjer explains scarcity, the problem that any given good of finite supply can only ever be put to some of the many ends for which we might use it, and opportunity cost, the concept that taking one ...

Sex radicals Angela and Ezra Haywood published the periodical The Word, often battling censors in their effort to get government out of the bedroom.

The spontaneous order theory proposes that order –and societies– emerge from self-interested actions from decentralized individuals with no particular common plan.

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—a think tank—dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Its scholars and analysts ...

Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called ...

The Hartford Wits were Federalists, but their arguments against democracy may ring familiar to modern libertarians.

In our final portion from Jackson's veto message, the president denies the Court's authority to constrain his will and affirms states' rights to monopoly banking.

Joel Feinberg's work on desert plays a pivotal role in modern libertarian moral philosophy.