Culture & the Libertarian Heritage

Pressing the Statist Quo

by Rich Schwartzman August 29, 2011

The question was blunt: “Why are libertarians so off-putting?” I’m not sure what I said exactly in response or how I said it. I was too busy forcing myself to be polite. It happened at last year’s Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s and the question came from my sister’s mother-in-law. I had the urge to scream that members of the ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show: August 20, 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2011

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The Jacob Hornberger Show: August 13, 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2011

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Thinking Vertically

by Rich Schwartzman July 14, 2011

The reaction to the Casey Anthony trial in Florida is just more proof of how ignorant so many Americans are about rights, laws, and liberty. Everyone from TV hosts — who should know better — to radio sports talk-show hosts (yes, really) to the normal gang at the coffee shop, all are appalled at a jury who failed to convict ...

A Letter from Jacob Hornberger: Libertarianism and the Presidential Race

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2011

Dear Friend of Freedom, With two libertarian Republicans, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, running for president, libertarianism is certain to be a topic of political conversation in the next 18 months. The Future of Freedom Foundation is well positioned to participate in what is clearly going to be a national discussion and debate on libertarian principles and philosophy. I am ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show June 11, 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2011

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The Jacob Hornberger Show: The Prerequisites of a Free Society

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2011

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The Jacob Hornberger Show: How Libertarians Are Different from Conservatives/Liberals

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2011

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The Best Introduction to Libertarianism

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2011

Libertarianism Today by Jacob H. Huebert (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010), 254 pages. Major books on libertarianism seem to come in pairs. First, in 1973, there was Murray N. Rothbard’s For a New Liberty (Macmillan, with a revised edition in 1978) and John Hospers’s Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow (Nash Publishing). The year 1997 saw the publication of David ...

Auberon Herbert, Part 2

by Wendy McElroy March 20, 2011

Part 1 | Part 2 On other issues, Auberon Herbert predictably sided with working people. In 1869, he acted as one of the presidents of the first national Cooperative Congress. As its name suggests, the Cooperative movement focused on establishing cooperative societies and arrangements, such as mutual insurance agencies. When Herbert’s Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State first ...

Democratic Liberalism, Limited Government, Free Markets: Necessary Partners? (video)

by Tom G. Palmer March 8, 2011

On March 7, 2011, Tom G. Palmer gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Tom Palmer is Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, General Director of the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity, a Senior Fellow ...

Auberon Herbert, Part 1

by Wendy McElroy February 18, 2011

Part 1 | Part 2 In his periodical Liberty, (May 23, 1885), the quintessential American individualist-anarchist Benjamin Tucker wrote of his British counterpart Auberon Herbert, “I know of no more inspiring spectacle in England than that of this man of exceptionally high social position doing battle almost single-handed with the giant monster, government, and showing in it a mental ...