They are often asked in debates over issues libertarians find especially important—like inheritance law, income ...

A small collection of works about F. A. Hayek to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize.

A discussion with Don Boudreaux about the legacy of F.A. Hayek. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past 25 years he has worked to promote the principles of a free ...

The autodidact and polymath Herbert Spencer was one of the most globally renowned philosophers of the 19th century. Over his 60- year career, English philosopher Herbert Spencer discussed a myriad of ...

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.

To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any. For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self- propriety, else could he not be himself; ...

A discussion on The Individualists with Matt Zwolinski. In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Matt Zwolinski about his recent book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” In the ...

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

“Will the American people…acknowledge the principle that [they] can only make or amend their constitutions by the permission of their rulers?” Marcus Morton was born in East Freetown, Massachusetts in ...