Dan Klein prompts us to think about the relationship between superiors and inferiors, and how this sheds light on our ...

Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th- century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences. His contributions to economics highlighted the ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty. Today Cicero is often read only by classical scholars and reluctant students, ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Although Herbert Spencer has been rightly regarded as the most ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

Libertarians should not support the Confederacy, because the Confederacy was not libertarian. Jason Kuznicki explains in this video. Why shouldn’t libertarians support the Confederacy? In short, ...

Presley gives a rundown of some of the many black women, both famous and lesser- known, who worked toward the abolition of slavery. Black women were in the forefront of abolitionist lecturing and ...

Blanks argues that there is no good libertarian reason to support the South’s secession prior to the Civil War. There is a strain of libertarian contrarianism that holds that the Confederate States of ...

George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith’s ...

What did Popper actually believe about speech and tolerance in a liberal, pluralistic society? Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to ...