All Posts Tagged With: "libertarianism"

Libertarianism, from A to Z

Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron’s primer on libertarian thought proceeds just as the title indicates: a collection of alphabetically arranged short essays on 105 topics. This is a more effective technique than one might imagine: Since many people unfamiliar with libertarianism approach it by way of specific questions and challenges, Miron provides answers. Readers of [...]

4Jan2012 | Aeon J. Skoble | 3 comments | Continued

Cato Launches Libertarianism.org

The Cato Institute has unveiled a new website, Libertarianism, which will, in editor Aaron Ross Powell’s words, “facilitate[] deep and fruitful discussion of these ideas [of liberty]. And . . . introduce[] visitors to the value of the presumption of liberty.” The site will feature classic and new articles and video lectures, never shown before, of [...]

3Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | Continued

Libertarianism Today

Libertarianism is attracting more attention than ever. As the economic and social damage done by Leviathan increases exponentially Americans are coming to understand that government power is the root of our many troubles. The idea that a consistent philosophy based on freedom and peaceful cooperation among all people is the only path out of the [...]

26Oct2011 | George C. Leef | 5 comments | Continued

Of Malice and Straw Men

We libertarians must be onto something. Why else would critics work so hard to construct straw men to demolish rather than contending with our actual arguments? Right from the top you could tell that Stephen Metcalf’s blast in Slate would be no different. “Liberty Scam” featured this teaser: “Why even Robert Nozick, the philosophical father [...]

21Sep2011 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | Continued

The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective

This collection of essays tries to trace the influence, define the ideology, and question the validity or propriety of the philosophy known as “neoliberalism.” The book is structured around the notion that this term can be fruitfully defined as the ideas promoted by the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS). The MPS was an organization of academics [...]

21Sep2011 | Brian Doherty | 2 comments | Continued

Drug Decriminalization Has Failed?

Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a columnist for the Washington Post, has denounced libertarianism as “morally empty,” “anti-government,” “a scandal,” “an idealism that strangles mercy,” guilty of “selfishness,” “rigid ideology,” and “rigorous ideological coldness.” (He’s starting to repeat himself.) In his May 9 column, “Ron Paul’s Land of Second-Rate [...]

24Aug2011 | David Boaz | 7 comments | Continued

Libertarianism and Torture

Torture destroys everyone and everything decent it touches, including the torturer’s humanity.

10May2011 | Wendy McElroy | 47 comments | Continued

A Libertarian Antipoverty Agenda

Too many poor Americans are stuck in poverty because of the structural barriers government puts in their way.

24Feb2011 | Steven Horwitz | 32 comments | Continued

Not All Choices Are Equal

Opponents of the freedom philosophy never run out of insipid rebuttals. The latest to have a go at it is Martin Wolf of the Financial Times. Wolf ponders the question, “What is the role of the state,” and notes that a “strand” of classical liberalism (or libertarianism) “believes the answer is to define the role [...]

24Nov2010 | Sheldon Richman | 10 comments | Continued

Not All Choices Are Equal

Opponents of the freedom philosophy never run out of insipid rebuttals.

10Sep2010 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | Continued

Racism and Libertarianism

At FreedomFest last month I spoke on racism and libertarianism. My remarks can be downloaded here.

5Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition

In his new book, The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition, Thomas Fleming, longtime editor of the fine paleoconservative journal Chronicles (to which I have contributed in the past), essays a multipronged assault on the style of moral reasoning that has, in his telling, dominated the Western world from [...]

9Jul2010 | Brian Doherty | 1 comment | Continued

The Function of The Freeman

Our function is to expound and apply the principles of traditional liberalism and individual freedom, and to expose the errors of collectivism of all shades.

25Jun2010 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Making a Calling Succeed

It has never been more important for libertarians to recognize our calling and to understand how to make it succeed. Rush’s story serves as an inspiration.

17Jun2010 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | Continued

Libertarianism = Anti-racism

Rand Paul’s comments regarding the federal ban on racial discrimination in public accommodations have brought the libertarian position on civil rights to public attention.

28May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 29 comments | Continued

Civil Rights and the Libertarian Principle

My piece in today’s Christian Science Monitor is here.

26May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Murray Rothbard

In 1946 the fledgling Foundation for Economic Education published a pamphlet titled “Roofs or Ceilings: The Current Housing Problem,” a brief against rent control written by two unknown young economists: Milton Friedman and George Stigler. They would go on to win the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976 and 1982, respectively. That’s a remarkable story. [...]

24Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued
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