Jeannette Rankin was her generation’s most passionate voice against war, a suffragist, reformer, and relentless advocate for peace. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, remains one ...

Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government. There is, I fear, no time like the present to remind ourselves of ...

In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow- governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves. For our final number, we turn to Spooner’s ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2025. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past ...

Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. He is an academic, lawyer, columnist, and ...

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

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, ...

“There is an inherent difficulty in fixing limits to incorporeality. The regions of thought, like those of the air, are the common property of all.” When challenged by a flurry of letters- to- the- ...

Our author puts forth a romanticized, mythologized version of history to defend the claim that love is the result of imagination, inequality, and difference. Godwin’s thoughts on the nature of ...