Libertarianism

The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place?

The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place?

The editors of this important new philosophy book are young Polish professors and researchers who remember the horrors of Soviet communism and are fully inoculated against anticapitalism.

The American empire—with its global military footprint and permanent war economy—cannot be financed through honest taxation without provoking revolt.

Why does such a strong love of freedom appear both among towering intellects and among those of far more modest cognitive means?

The American empire—with its global military footprint and permanent war economy—cannot be financed through honest taxation without provoking revolt.

While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical Daoist thinkers wrote about state power in a way that would seem to channel none other than Murray Rothbard.

The authors provide an alternative libertarian approach to blackmail that differs from that of Rothbard and Block.

Every lover of liberty should have a good reading list that promotes freedom. At the same time, one should develop the discerning eye to recognize statist language and to reject it.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.”