Living In Freedom
Reflections on a free society by America's leading drop-out
Coping with violence in the 21st century. An excerpt from the forthcoming novel by the Founder of Rampart College.
Reversing America's drift into statism would bring incredible prosperity…and world peace
The movement has grown up; it's time to put aside bickering, and start working in the real world.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
A brief history of the modern libertarian movement
Remarks by Nathaniel Branden at REASON's tenth-anniversary banquet
The author of Defending the Undefendable reaches some unexpected conclusions.
Abortion advocates are engaged in a particularly nasty bit of semantic sophistry.
Rational self-interest provides a means of resolving the abortion dilemma.
If the sports buffs of America weren't victims before, they will be before long.
How a handful of economists defied orthodoxy and produced the economic success story of the past quarter century.
The world's major environmental problems are created by people struggling to survive, people with few options; not by industry, technology or the economy.
Only by realizing that deregulation is a matter of profound moral truth—not of convenience, efficiency, cost, or pleasure—can we overcome the intellectual and moral force of the case for regulation
They are merely "safety" bumpers, they say, but these cumbersome, weighty items, not only contribute nothing to safety, but in some way affect every facet of vehicle performance.
Rothbard's basic principle that we own ourselves is open to question.
When you tax effort, you get less of it; when you subsidize leisure, you get more of it. Arguments over who is to get the fruits of our labor become moot if the result is less labor and less fruit.
Development gone berserk? Boiler-factories next door? No. Houston's refusal to zone has brought economic vitality.
Just a new twist to an old racket. Uncle Mario's boys would have understood national health insurance.
The Interior Department's 160-acre farm limitation amounts to a war against the productive
The memoirs of a famous journalist of the classical liberal tradition.
A few words in praise of Edward Kennedy
It was star-studded, wealthy, professional…and a flop.
Four years, $141 million, and 2,000 life sentences later, New York has more drugs and more addicts than ever before.
Vast new regulations on the 87% of Nevada owned by the federal government have the citizens fighting mad. And now the feds are packing guns…
Political "cross-dressing" is the answer
What goes on during those 40-hour weekends?
With much fanfare, Carter ends a travel ban that wasn't.
Certain "profound" questions lead to nothing but grief
Government policies have locked up nearly all western coal…and the odds aren't good for setting it free
A single resident of Chesapeake, Virginia, battles for the right to choose his own water supply
Government aid reinforces the disastrous trend to politicize life in poor countries.
Incantations and force will not produce health care.
The Delaney Amendment guarantees the production and acceptance of false theorems by the FDA.
Newspapers condemn censorship of ideas while promoting censorship of production.
The "most toxic substance know to man" is far more valuable than gold.
Anita Bryant and the gay rights movement have both missed the point.
Self-suppression paves the way for political suppression.
Rights are an invention of man, not a law of nature, say the authors.
As minor parties go, the Libertarian Party is a piker.
What the Libertarian Party has achieved in only a few years is little short of phenomenal.
Can the scientific outlook survive in an increasingly pseudo-scientific age?
We must realize the world is no longer in our control and adapt accordingly.
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