John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) contains a defense of private property that makes use of the idea of labor-mixing. In §27, Locke writes: '[…] for this labour being the unquestionable ...

Pundits of the "New Right" are radically opposed to libertarianism. Yet the facts of history, and libertarian arguments, ...

Libertarian political theory places individual liberty at its core, grounding social order in the twin principles of self-ownership and unfettered property rights. It insists that each person has ...

Libertarianism has morphed in the last couple of decades from a scholarly political theory housed in the halls of the universities of Europe and America into a mainstream political trend. With any ...

As I describe in my new memoir, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, I have identified as a libertarian since I was a junior in college. I still do. But for at least the past ...

Liberalism (in the classical sense) and its more austere cousin libertarianism, are fundamentally doctrines that put personal and political freedom at the heart of things. Liberalism is committed to ...

Its libertarian-democratic, humanist, and anti-statist qualities permit anarchists to use valuable aspects of Marxism (such as the economic analysis or the theory of class struggle). Yet it still ...

John Plender (“Wisdom for a punch-drunk Wall Street,” August 31) describes the theory of the Fed under Alan Greenspan as “hands-off in the upturn but super-active in loosening policy and rescuing ...

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689) contains a defense of private property that makes use of the idea of labor-mixing. In §27, Locke writes: ‘[…] for this labour being the unquestionable ...