Libertarianism

The Libertarian Angle: Foreign Policy Blowback and Police Tyranny

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 8, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: foreign blowback and police tyranny . The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.  

TGIF: Tackling Straw Men Is Easier than Critiquing Libertarianism

by Sheldon Richman December 5, 2014

Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but I think it behooves a critic to understand what he’s criticizing. I realize that tackling straw men is much easier than dealing with challenging arguments, but that’s no excuse for the shoddy work we find in John Edward Terrell’s New York Times post, “Evolution and the American Myth of the Individual.” In his ...

The Libertarian Angle: Obama’s Immigration Decree

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 2, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: immigration policy. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: The Uber Insurgency

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 25, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: Uber's undermining the taxi monopoly. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Uncompromising Libertarian Principles (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 17, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the case for an uncompromising, pure vision of libertarianism. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Republican Electoral Victory

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 10, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the Republican landslide. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.  

Benjamin Constant: A Principled Voice of Liberty Worth Recalling

by Richard M. Ebeling November 3, 2014

October 25th marked the 247th birthday of one of the greatest voices of liberty, the French political philosopher of freedom, Benjamin Constant. He may not be a household name to friends of freedom today, but he should be. He wrote one of the most principled and consistent defenses of individual liberty and freedom of enterprise to appear in the ...

Jane Cobden: Carrying On Her Father’s Good Work

by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2014

Among libertarians and classical liberals, the name Richard Cobden (1804–1865) evokes admiration and applause. His activities — and successes — on behalf of freedom, free markets, and government retrenchment are legendary. Most famously, he co-founded — with John Bright — the Anti–Corn Law League, which successfully campaigned for repeal of the import tariffs on grain. Those trade restrictions had ...

The Libertarian Angle: Separating School & State

by Future of Freedom Foundation October 27, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: why need to end the state's involvement in the education of our children. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

TGIF: Leonard P. Liggio (1933–2014)

by Sheldon Richman October 17, 2014

I lost one of my favorite teachers this week, as did so many other libertarians, not to mention  the freedom movement as a whole. Leonard P. Liggio, 81, died after a period of declining health. Leonard was a major influence on my worldview during the nearly 40 years I knew him. While I had not seen him much in ...

Bartolomé de las Casas: All Mankind Is One

by Wendy McElroy October 1, 2014

The 16th-century Spanish historian and Dominican Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) fought against the violent colonization of and enslavement in the New World. He spoke against imperialism and for universal human rights. “All mankind is one,” he insisted; every individual possessed an identical, natural right to liberty. Las Casas was born in Seville at a fortunate time. The Italian Renaissance ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Role of Government in a Free Society

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 29, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: a recent debate with Dinesh D'Souza. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.