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, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

As I describe in my new memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, I have identified as a libertarian since I was a junior in college. I still do. But for at least the past ...

Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, D.C.'s most prominent think tank. For decades, ...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is not a libertarian. Sure, he boasts of leading a “free state” and has drawn libertarian praise for some of his COVID-19 policies. But as an extensive new profile ...

Is it just a phase they go through—or is there something about libertarianism that attracts, well, uh, you know, racist kooks? Senior Columnist Libertarianism has an alt-right problem. Many prominent ...

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 ...

There is more to the movement than the party, as small-l libertarians have always been quick to emphasize. But the broader movement is enduring its own identity crisis. The end of the Cold War marked ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

Stranger Things' fifth season delivered an epic conclusion to one of Netflix's most popular shows. In the process, the Duffer brothers, creators and showrunners, communicated a li ...

Michael Kinsley rightly marks libertarianism as being “useful and undervalued” in American political discourse and this historian of the movement says thanks. However, Kinsley tries not to go too far.