Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion.

Why such a contradiction? Because he is frequently used as a boogeyman to be trotted out against “do- nothing- ism” when a crisis emerges. Depicted as a passive actor with regard to both the onset of ...

The Sanskrit Arthashastra, a manual for establishing a prosperous state written in ancient India by Kautilya, articulates many principles that would later become the foundations of modern economics.

The two philosophers are considered geniuses in their own right, but they disagreed on the particulars of how best to live a virtuous life. One of their most fundamental disagreements- - and one that ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty.

War is the quintessential undertaking of the state, especially the modern centralized nation- state of the past five or six centuries. Indeed, the relationship between the two is encapsulated in the ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate.

The emergence of freedom of speech as an essential value of Western civilization is inseparable from the emergence of individual religious liberty in the 17th and 18th centuries. For generations ...

Arthur George (A. G.) Gaston was born on July 4, 1892, in Demopolis, Alabama. Shortly after Gaston’s birth, he was sent off to be raised by his grandmother. His father had passed away and his mother ...

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.