Saint Augustine There is an ancient saying, attributed to Aesop: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” The comparison between government and robbery is often ...

“Woman shall be free…to the use of her maternal functions in spite of law or priest…though it rock the nations from centre to circumference.” Originally delivered as a lecture at Jackson, Michigan (14 ...

An ardent abolitionist and supporter of the women's suffrage movement, William Lloyd Garrison is perhaps best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

The economic fallacies tackled here are the zero sum game, that order requires design, & that consumption is the key to growth. Steven Horwitz is Economics Editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org and ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

The modern state is a contingent historical development, born in blood- - not a permanent or inevitable feature of human society. In concentrating decision- making power, the state divests citizens ...

Ibrahim Anoba is the Editor of African Lib er ty .org. He is an expert in the African political economy with deep interest in African philosophy and history. In the course of researching the ...

Surprenant discusses Kant’s thinking on the relationship between individuals’ moral development and the political sphere. One of the most interesting passages from Immanuel Kant’s work comes from his ...

Smith discusses Kant’s attempt to justify objective moral principles and his views on when the use of coercion is morally proper. George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute ...

George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith’s ...

Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues. And it can be justified by libertarian principles. Still skeptical? Well, here are three ...