Libertarianism

What is the correct analysis, from a libertarian point of view, of governmental action in the face of the coronavirus? Is the state justified in imposing quarantines or vaccines to cure this disease?

Today’s progressive humanist movement transcends freedom, liberty, and reason by seeking utopian perfection through flawed secular dogma and compulsory communitarianism. Humanism’s progressive values cannot be achieved via compulsory means, as evinced by the repeated failure of intellectual attempts to transform functioning societies into social utopias.

While the present democratic social order may be the technologically most advanced civilization, it most certainly is not the most advanced socially. The principal counterstrategy of recivilization must be a return to “normality” by means of decentralization.

Today would have been the ninety-second birthday of JoAnn Rothbard.

The coronavirus demonstrates how crises become local.

Against the Left, examines key battlegrounds in the struggle to preserve real libertarianism against its enemies: the assault on the family, civil rights and “disabilities,” immigration, environmentalism, economic egalitarianism, and the left-libertarian imposters.

Mises University is the world’s leading instructional program in the Austrian school of economics.