Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many -though not all- libertarians ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Robotto Staff/Fiverr Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the ...

Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming ...

Libertarianism is frequently accused of only appealing to white men, but data on American political identification finds the philosophy has much broader appeal—especially among millennials. Only ...

Libertarianism has always been an eccentric ideology. It has not always been an embarrassing one. In the not-too-distant past, to call oneself a libertarian might bring to mind figures such as Nobel ...

Is the era of tech bros and techno-libertarianism over? Depending on how you look at it, tech poster boys Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk either caused or could not contain body blows not only to ...

In politics, we often skip past the simple questions. This is why inquiries about the fundamentals can sometimes catch everyone short. Michael Lind, the independent-minded scholar, posed one such ...

At the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend, the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives, many speculated that the GOP might be veering in a more libertarian direction—or ...

I considered myself a libertarian for at least 10 years. The first time I heard the term was in 2000, watching Harry Browne in the third-party presidential debates. I knew next to nothing of ...

Does libertarianism work? Argentina is about to find out. The country rejected its failing Peronist status quo and elected right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as its next president this week. HALEY ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference on Jan. 27, 2015. Rand Paul’s leadership in the Senate – on the budget, regulation, privacy, criminal justice, and foreign policy – and his ...