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Classical liberalism

Conservatism

David French to the New York Times

The former First Amendment litigator and Dispatch co-founder becomes a columnist at the New York Times.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.3.2023 9:43 AM

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Religion

Against Game of Thrones Christianity

To truly care about virtue is to recognize that it matters how you win: Ends don't justify means.

Stephanie Slade | 12.24.2022 6:00 AM

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Human Progress

Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley: More People Means More Wealth

The Superabundance authors make a compelling case that the world is getting richer for everyone.

Nick Gillespie | 12.14.2022 11:00 AM

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Progress

Thanos Was Wrong: More People Means More Wealth

Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.

Nick Gillespie | 12.14.2022 10:30 AM

Libertarianism

Coase on Koppelman on Somin on Koppelman on Somin on Koppelman

A Post-Script to the Balkinization symposium on Andrew Koppelman's Burning Down the House.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 12.9.2022 10:35 AM

Libertarianism

Andrew Koppelman's Half-Way Hayekianism

My contribution to the Balkinization symposium on Andrew Koppelman's new book, Burning Down the House.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.29.2022 12:45 PM

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Libertarian History/Philosophy

Have 'Delusion and Greed'—and Murray Rothbard—Destroyed Libertarianism?

Burning Down the House argues that the shift from Hayek's classical liberalism to Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism has led the movement astray.

Nick Gillespie | 11.16.2022 10:30 AM

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Libertarian Party

Justin Amash's Vision for the Libertarian Party

The Libertarian former congressman on the Mises Caucus takeover, his embrace of "liberalism," and political strategy.

Zach Weissmueller and Nick Gillespie | 6.17.2022 3:15 PM

Classical liberalism

Trouble at Liberty Fund?

Keith E. Whittington |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.25.2022 2:02 PM

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Reason Roundup

Voters Around the World Are Cooling on Populists, Gravitating Toward Technocrats

Plus: A very blunt Senate candidate, bad news for business mergers, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.19.2022 9:33 AM

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Germany

Could Classical Liberalism Win Big in Germany?

In the country’s first post-Merkel election, Germany’s Free Democratic Party could once again be a "kingmaker."

Fiona Harrigan | 9.23.2021 2:45 PM

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Conservatism

JD Vance Surrenders to the Politics of Hate

"I think our people hate the right people," the Senate candidate said last week. He's in infamous company.

Stephanie Slade | 9.2.2021 8:33 AM

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Fusionism

Is There a Future for Fusionism?

In the years since the Cold War, conservatives have lost sight of the relationship between liberty and personal responsibility.

Stephanie Slade | 2.10.2021 6:00 AM

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Obituaries

The Magical Genius of Peter Huber

He wove physics and poetry into policy.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 1.22.2021 8:30 AM

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass vs. the 1619 Project

A new book explicates the escaped slave and renowned orator's argument that the Constitution is "a glorious liberty document" that justified ending slavery.

Nick Gillespie | 12.16.2020 2:45 PM

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Central planning

In a Complex World, Politicians Have a Simple Demand: More Power

Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.

J.D. Tuccille | 12.2.2020 12:45 PM

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Conservatism

Will-to-Power Conservatism and the Great Liberalism Schism

By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.

Stephanie Slade | 9.8.2020 6:00 AM

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Uruguay

Will Uruguay's Luis Lacalle Pou Deliver Where Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro Has Faltered?

New hope for free market reform in Latin America.

Daniel Raisbeck | 7.3.2020 10:00 AM

Libertarianism

Welcome to the New Radical Classical Liberals Blog

The contributors include numerous prominent libertarian political philosophers, including some who are former participants in the Now-Closed Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.2.2020 3:49 PM

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Nationalism

Against the New Nationalism

Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution

Stephanie Slade | 2.24.2020 8:30 AM

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Freedom

Give Me Liberty

Stephanie Slade | 1.3.2020 6:00 AM

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Brexit

What the U.S. Media Get Totally Wrong About Brexit: Daniel Hannan

One of Brexit's architects says leaving the EU is a victory for free trade and decentralization and warns that a Corbyn victory will destroy the U.K.'s future.

Nick Gillespie | 12.10.2019 2:42 PM

Q&A

Conservatism

George Will Still Believes in Classical Liberalism 

The erudite author and television commentator is not ready to give up on conservatism just yet.

Matt Welch | 11.10.2019 6:00 AM

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Conservatism

George Will's Uphill Battle Against Trump's GOP and the Democratic Socialist Left

A defense of the conservative sensibility in an era of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Matt Welch, Ian Keyser, and Todd Krainin | 6.14.2019 10:00 AM

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Catholicism

The New Theocrats Are Neither Conservative Nor Christian

By rejecting classical liberalism, Sohrab Ahmari and his ilk deny the dignity of the human person.

Stephanie Slade | 6.3.2019 3:15 PM

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Conservatism

David French Is Right: Classical Liberalism Is the Best Framework for Protecting Religious Freedom

In which First Things throws a temper tantrum

Robby Soave | 5.31.2019 3:25 PM

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Economics

If You Think Having Too Many Choices Is Tyranny, Wait Until You Have Too Few

Articles complaining "there is too much stuff" may be the one thing of which we have too many.

Nick Gillespie | 5.28.2019 7:20 PM

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Neoliberalism

What Does 'Neoliberalism' Really Mean?

Phillip W. Magness | 12.30.2018 6:00 AM

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History

Dropouts Built America

When the going gets tough, the tough start something better.

Jesse Walker | 12.29.2018 6:00 AM

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Reasontv

Stossel: Leaving the Left

Dave Rubin tells John Stossel how he walked away from the left.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 9.25.2018 10:15 AM

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Republican Party

Fight the Populist Right, the Progressive Left, and the Governments They Control

Democrats and Republicans reject individualism and free speech and both have become dangerous to our liberty.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.15.2018 12:00 AM

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Frederick Douglass

The Inconvenient Individualism of Frederick Douglass

A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.

Jesse Walker | 2.15.2018 8:45 AM

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Politics

Avoid the Deadly Isms

The binary "us vs. them" approach in politics abets the loss of freedom.

John Stossel | 12.20.2017 12:15 AM

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Reasontv

Egyptian Dissident Cynthia Farahat: The Middle East Is Hungry for Free Markets and Free Speech

She started the first secular, pro-market party in Egypt. Then the government sent the secret police after her.

Justin Monticello | 11.8.2017 3:48 PM

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Libertarian History/Philosophy

Libertarianism Isn't a 'Gateway Drug' to the Alt-Right

Those who migrate from libertarianism to the alt-right have rejected the essence of the freedom movement and its philosophy.

Sheldon Richman | 9.3.2017 12:01 AM

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Classical liberalism

Classical Liberalism Is Incompatible With Imperialism

Imperialism is not the highest stage of capitalism, as Karl Marx claimed.

Marian Tupy | 8.22.2017 7:00 AM

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Fascism

Choose Sides? You Bet. But Antifa and Fascism Are the Same Side.

Advocates of liberal society are a side in themselves, and the left- and right-wing thugs battling in the streets are rival siblings from an illiberal family.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.22.2017 12:01 AM

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The Fifth Column

Trump-Media Wars, Nancy MacLean's Smear, and the People vs. John McEnroe: New Fifth Column

Podcast takes aim at journalistic self-importance, politician awfulness, and Southie accents

Matt Welch | 6.30.2017 1:50 PM

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Celebrities

Jennifer Lawrence, Libertarian Feminist?

The star was spotted wearing a "We Should All Be Feminists" T-shirt and carrying a book with Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises on it.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.19.2017 4:24 PM

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Law & Government

Frederick Douglass Hated Socialism

He stood for natural rights, racial equality, and economic liberty in a free labor system. At the heart of his worldview was the principle of self-ownership.

Damon Root | 3.12.2017 6:30 AM

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Progressives

America Needs a Liberal Party

True defenders of real liberalism need to take the word back from progressives and conservatives.

Robert Zubrin | 3.4.2017 9:11 AM

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