Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many -though not all- libertarians ...

Reinterpreting Libertarianism: New Directions in Libertarian Studies—and offers insights on some of the contributions.

While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, D.C.'s most prominent think tank. For decades, ...

Libertarianism, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

As various American cities descend into weeks or even monthslong street disorder, launched by anger and anguish over police brutality, standard American political ideas and groups seem equally ...

BioShock was created by Ken Levine, one of gaming's most elusive figures. He has sometimes described himself as both an ...

David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and author of The Libertarian Mind, to be published by Simon & Schuster on February 10. Rand Paul’s leadership in the Senate – on the ...