Out of the Living Room
The movement has grown up; it's time to put aside bickering, and start working in the real world.
Features
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The Road to Liberty
A brief history of the modern libertarian movement
Thank You Ayn Rand, and Goodbye
Remarks by Nathaniel Branden at REASON's tenth-anniversary banquet
Woman and Fetus: Rights in Conflict?
The author of Defending the Undefendable reaches some unexpected conclusions.
It's a Matter of Life and Death
Abortion advocates are engaged in a particularly nasty bit of semantic sophistry.
The Morality of Non-Interference
Rational self-interest provides a means of resolving the abortion dilemma.
F.A.N.S. (Further Adventures of Nader's Sophists)
If the sports buffs of America weren't victims before, they will be before long.
The German Non-Miracle
How a handful of economists defied orthodoxy and produced the economic success story of the past quarter century.
Back to the Land: Environmental Suicide
The world's major environmental problems are created by people struggling to survive, people with few options; not by industry, technology or the economy.
Deregulation Is a Moral Issue
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
Billion Dollar Bumpers
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.
A Challenge to Self-Ownership
Rothbard's basic principle that we own ourselves is open to question.
Who Gets What
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.
Houston Defies the Planners…and Thrives
Development gone berserk? Boiler-factories next door? No. Houston's refusal to zone has brought economic vitality.
Selling Protection
Just a new twist to an old racket. Uncle Mario's boys would have understood national health insurance.
Imperial Valley Rip-Off
The Interior Department's 160-acre farm limitation amounts to a war against the productive
In the Course of "Human Events"
The memoirs of a famous journalist of the classical liberal tradition.
The Curious Politics of Deregulation
A few words in praise of Edward Kennedy
New Deal Nemesis
It was star-studded, wealthy, professional…and a flop.
Rockefeller's Draconian Drug Law
Four years, $141 million, and 2,000 life sentences later, New York has more drugs and more addicts than ever before.
Trouble on the Range
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…
How To Get Converts Left & Right
Political "cross-dressing" is the answer
Inside Branden's Intensive
What goes on during those 40-hour weekends?
Why Didn't Anyone Tell Jimmy?
With much fanfare, Carter ends a travel ban that wasn't.
Wrong Answers? No. Wrong Questions.
Certain "profound" questions lead to nothing but grief
Why Coal Won't Be America's Energy Salvation
Government policies have locked up nearly all western coal…and the odds aren't good for setting it free
Illegal Water
A single resident of Chesapeake, Virginia, battles for the right to choose his own water supply
Foreign Aid Hasn't Worked…And It Never Will
Government aid reinforces the disastrous trend to politicize life in poor countries.
Washington Witch Doctors
Incantations and force will not produce health care.
Does Saccharin Cause Cancer? Do Pigs Fly? Ask Congressman Delaney.
The Delaney Amendment guarantees the production and acceptance of false theorems by the FDA.
If the Press Is Free, Why Aren't We?
Newspapers condemn censorship of ideas while promoting censorship of production.
The Great Plutonium Scare
The "most toxic substance know to man" is far more valuable than gold.
A Day Without Property Rights Is Like a Day Without Sunshine
Anita Bryant and the gay rights movement have both missed the point.
Why We Consent to Oppression
Self-suppression paves the way for political suppression.
Those "Natural" Rights Aren't
Rights are an invention of man, not a law of nature, say the authors.
America's Third Largest Party: Failure!
As minor parties go, the Libertarian Party is a piker.
America's Third Largest Party: Success!
What the Libertarian Party has achieved in only a few years is little short of phenomenal.
UFOs, Bent Spoons, and Alternate Realities
Can the scientific outlook survive in an increasingly pseudo-scientific age?
Non-Intervention: A Libertarian Approach to Defense
We must realize the world is no longer in our control and adapt accordingly.
Wishful Thinking Is No Defense
A political scientist challenges libertarian foreign policy myths
Permissible Defense
Isolationism no more follows from libertarian ideals than does interventionism.
The Conscription Menace Returns
A campaign to reinstitute involuntary servitude has been launched by Congressional "moderates" and "conservatives."
