Wait, Wasn't Peter Thiel a Libertarian?
The tech billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for America's future.
The tech billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for America's future.
Ilya Somin, Angela McArdle, and Francis Menton debate how libertarians should cast their votes in 2020.
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
Philosopher Aeon Skoble provides a helpful explanation.
An "oil spill" of politics has polluted American life, leaving little room for common ground.
The contributors include numerous prominent libertarian political philosophers, including some who are former participants in the Now-Closed Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog.
Second in a series of posts based on my new book "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom"
Several of the scholars associated with the now-closed BHL blog have started a new one.
How to stop police killings and enact real, lasting reforms.
Real changes will require fewer laws and less violent enforcement.
Professor Balkin asked me many great questions in interview just published at his Balkinization blog.
One of the internet's most prominent libertarian blogs ends its run. But many of the contributors will continue write elsewhere.
While Europe was in revolt, America had its own Free Soil revolution of 1848.
A review of Richard Epstein's latest book: The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law
The granddaughter of Cuban and Hungarian refugees says that political, economic, cultural, and sexual freedom are all intertwined and non-negotiable.
"I don't think you should do Twitter if you think you're better than Twitter."
In the second of two posts on Tyler Cowen's idea, I assess whether state capacity libertarianism is the right path for libertarians to follow.
Is "state capacity libertarianism" really where "smart" libertarians are headed? I am skeptical.
Tyler Cowen is wrong to champion "State Capacity Libertarianism," but he's right that advocates of free minds and free markets need to up our game.
Too many of your friends and neighbors are tribal idiots, but they're not the worst tribal idiots in recent memory, by any means.
Walter Block and Kerry Baldwin debate whether women should have the legal right to terminate their pregnancies.
Walter Block and Kerry Baldwin debate whether pregnant women should have the legal right to evict a fetus.
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.
The conservative critic of Donald Trump and author of Liberal Fascism and Suicide of the West is launching The Dispatch, a site for principled conservatism.
The erudite author and television commentator is not ready to give up on conservatism just yet.
Mattress girl's unlikely friendship with Reason folks is the subject of a recent piece for The Cut.
Graham criticism of Trump's Syria policy says a lot more about the senator's appetite for endless war than the failures of an imagined non-interventionist foreign policy.
The entrepreneur and long shot presidential candidate finds a libertarian-sounding way to pitch free money to voters.
The billionaire philanthropist worked to create a world in which people are more prosperous and tolerant.
The democratic socialist congresswoman also criticized Republican hypocrisy.
People are important as individuals, not as extensions of some faceless mass.
Some on both left and right argue that the American Revolution was a mistake that ultimately caused more harm than good. Here's why they're wrong.
America's favorite humorist makes an official podcast re-announcement of his perennial presidential campaign.
America's favorite libertarian humorist on fake news, Florida, getting woke, and getting old
The postwar era has been an endless series of rebukes to social conservatives—and a win for libertarians.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
The heroism of the still-unidentified "Tank Man" helped destroy authoritarian rule in so many countries, but not his own.
Free market reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.
The "blogfather" once touted the internet as the antidote to Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media. Now he wants the feds to crack down on social media.
The president goes personal in his reply to a libertarian Republican congressman accusing him of obstruction of justice.
Capitalism isn't conservative when it comes to social and economic life. It provides exactly the sort of "bold, structural changes" socialists want but inevitably botch.
I agree with this classic pro-choice slogan. But those who promote it would do well to recognize it has implications that go far beyond abortion. More people should embrace more of them.
My new book chapter is now available for free on SSRN. It desccribes how "voting with your feet" played a central role in American history, how foot voting is at the heart of much of the nation's success, and the recent rise of dangerous new obstacles to foot-voting. Part of a new book, "Our American Story: The Search for a National Narrative."
Cass Sunstein's latest book puts a lot of faith in the efficacy of government to structure our choices.
The Indiana mayor has some policy preferences that don't square with personal freedom or limited government
A libertarian goes to a conference on socialism and finds some surprising similarities.