Liberalism

The nonaggression principle and negative freedom are not the same thing. Isaiah Berlin's work shows the key difference between them.

We will win. But how long will it take, and at what price victory?

Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice.

Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about freedom and personal choice.

Wilhelm von Humboldt ’s opposition to the reactionary policies of his government gained him as much ill-will at court as it did popularity among the people.

Kevin Vallier's new book is a valuable contribution to "public reason liberalism," introducing useful arguments for strengthening private property rights.

Evolutionary social theory can form part of a liberal theory of politics, but Hayek and Spencer's evolutionary arguments to explain the emergence of freedom in mass societies are deficient.

There is little evidence that Mill advocated an unhampered marketplace of ideas. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary—that he preferred a kind of “affirmative action for unconventional opinions.”

Today's conflicts revolve around the desire to grab hold of someone else's property using the tool of compulsion that is the state. Would we be more peaceful and prosperous if it followed the liberal program? The question answers itself.

Our guest is Shawn Whatley, a physician in Canada who is the author of the recently released book When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare Is Failing.