This article examines four competing philosophical theories of the parental role within a libertarian framework: parental ...

Andrew Koppelman has posted a response to participants in the Balkinization symposium on his recent book Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed. I ...

"There's always tension between freedom and fairness," notes Christopher Beam in a New York magazine essay on Libertarianism. The 5,000+ word treatise makes its way through the political movement, ...

Nobody expects the Republican presidential nominee to be a libertarian purist, but it helps if he or she at least has a libertarian streak. In Rick Santorum’s case, he’s actively hostile toward ...

The libertarian movement has lost its way over the past 60 years as it's shifted from Friedrich Hayek's classical liberal corrective to Depression-era central planning to Murray Rothbard's full-blown ...

David Boaz was the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a prominent libertarian think tank based in Washington D.C., when he published “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom.” ...

Marco Battaglia is running for Iowa’s 3rd District seat in the U.S. House. At the Iowa State Fair he summarized his Libertarian philosophy as "don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.” The ...

Anyone familiar with the typical behavior of capital-L Libertarians understands exactly what Foster meant, and why his comment was funny. For years, libertarians have been too cool for school. More ...

One hundred years ago, Argentina, a country blessed with vast natural resources, was arguably one of the wealthiest nations in the world. But after the Great Depression, successive governments ...

There are a significant, but hopefully only a small percentage of libertarians who maintain that utilizing the ballot box is incompatible with our philosophy. What are their arguments? First and ...