This documentary examines the intellectual life and legacy of F. A. Hayek, 50 years after he won the Nobel Prize.

Rhode Island’s Quaker deputy- governor desperately seeks peace while Puritan expansionists see only opportunity. John Easton was born in Hampshire, England in 1624. His mother died while John was ...

Raised since early childhood to promote Jeremy Bentham's theory of utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill both expanded on those ideas and developed many of his own regarding individual freedom and liberty.

John Dickinson led an active political life. He was a member of the Continental Congress, served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1785, and was a member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

Jonathan Fortier talks with John Dalton about his recent book, Creative Destruction, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2024. He first encountered Schumpeter as a teenage reader of Capitalism, ...

James Winthrop, writing under the pseudonym Agrippa, argues against the Constitution, suggesting ratification will lead inevitably to the abuse of federal power. Many inconveniencies and difficulties ...

Writing under the pseudonym Cato, Trenchard and Gordon argue against the Constitution, warning that it will lead to a new corruptible aristocracy. In my last number I endeavored to prove that the ...

“Let Texas go to Great Britain if she pleases. She has a right to be a slave in her own way.” As of 1843, the “lonestar” Texas Republic counted itself among the family of independent nations. Though ...

Did a shady clique of politicians and businessmen attempt to lead a fascist coup against FDR?--Libertarian icon General Smedley Butler swore as much. Did a vast, powerful, and influential clique of ...

Concerning the fundamentalist author of Intellectual Schizophrenia, Rothbard writes, “The man seems almost incapable of ratiocination.” In 1961, Murray Rothbard was employed by the William Volker Fund ...

Statesman and economist Eugen von Böhm- Bawerk remains one of Karl Marx’s most scathing critics. Born in 1851, Eugen von Böhm- Bawerk distinguished himself as an economist, writing on theories of ...

“No one dared to act, but few ventured to speak…She looked round her for a leader to step forward to the rescue of American freedom! None appeared…” From August 4, 1842 to September 6, 1844, tens of ...