Jeannette Rankin was her generation’s most passionate voice against war, a suffragist, reformer, and relentless advocate for peace. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, remains one ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end of World War II. In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2025. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

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

Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government. There is, I fear, no time like the present to remind ourselves of ...

Our author puts forth a romanticized, mythologized version of history to defend the claim that love is the result of imagination, inequality, and difference. Godwin’s thoughts on the nature of ...

Abraham Lincoln’s address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois. In this speech, delivered three months after a pro- slavery mob killed newspaper editor and abolitionist Elijah Parish ...

Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one’s consent to be governed. Lysander Spooner was never one to respect a piece of unjust legislation. As we ...

In 1837, John Lewis O’Sullivan and his brother established The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in Washington, D.C., and it soon became one of the most important periodicals in American ...