European integration drove prosperity through economic liberalism, but it compromised classical liberal principles of privacy by employing extensive surveillance to control migration. Sarah Thomas ...

Libertarianism.org is the Cato Institute’s treasury of resources about the theory and history of liberty. We offer a wealth of original essays and classic reprints by great classical liberals and ...

Hoskins and O’Driscoll explore the role of property rights in economic development ...

Mussolini attempted to remake the Italian mind, taking a personal interest in applying the twin tools of censorship and propaganda. The unique totalitarian project of Italian Fascism reposed on a ...

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. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Editor’s Note ...

Adam Smith authorized the pursuit of honest income. But what should we do with that income? Max Laraia explores whether Peter Singer’s moral imperative to reduce suffering is consistent with Smith’s ...

On Liberty is not merely a political text explaining the intricacies of how the state ought to act. It is a love letter to the individual virtues of intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and ...

Early anarchist thinkers blurred the line between socialist and capitalist. Libertarians’ interest in anarchism is complicated by anarchism’s historic association with the radical left. Read more ...

Woodrow Wilson was a terrible president who took his failure global. Editor’s Note The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each president did ...

Having previously discussed abolitionist black women, Presley highlights some of the white women in the movement to end slavery. The valiant efforts of abolitionist men like William Lloyd Garrison, ...

Since its beginnings in the Enlightenment era, libertarianism has been a cosmopolitan ideology. Yet, some people in the libertarian camp have made calls to “secure the border” or to restrict ...