The entitlement-​desert distinction plays a pivotal role in the debate between Rawls and Nozick. What did Nozick take those ...

They are often asked in debates over issues libertarians find especially important—like inheritance law, income ...

A small collection of works about F. A. Hayek to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize.

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.

A discussion with Don Boudreaux about the legacy of F.A. Hayek. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past 25 years he has worked to promote the principles of a free ...

To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any. For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self- propriety, else could he not be himself; ...

“Should tyrants take it into their heads to emancipate any of you, remember that your freedom is your natural right…God will dash tyrants…into atoms.” It is well known to the Christian world, that ...

“Battles,’ said Voltaire, ‘are not lost by [numbers] of killed and wounded, but by the effect…on the survivers.’ The same holds now of the principle of freedom.” The United States Magazine & ...

Our ignorance of the things that affect our well- being demonstrates the importance of freedom in enabling us to achieve our goals. F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic ...

A discussion on The Individualists with Matt Zwolinski. In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks with Matt Zwolinski about his recent book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle ...

The autodidact and polymath Herbert Spencer was one of the most globally renowned philosophers of the 19th century. Over his 60- year career, English philosopher Herbert Spencer discussed a myriad of ...