Longtime Cato Institute head Ed Crane died this month. Many in the movement he helped build have trouble seeing Trump clearly.

Libertarianism is important, and I want it to be more influential. For it to do this though it has to become more realistic. I believe a major impediment is that many -though not all- libertarians ...

The Cato Institute founder considered this First Amendment right to be the core of libertarianism.

Libertarianism includes a spectrum of beliefs about the role of the state. Classical liberalism supports a minimal state with accountability and predictability. Social Security's intergenerational ...

Libertarianism, most simply, promotes the absolute and inherent liberty of the individual. These liberties require no justification and extend to freedom of speech, religion, association, the right to ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference on Jan. 27, 2015. Rand Paul’s leadership in the Senate – on the budget, regulation, privacy, criminal justice, and foreign policy – and his ...

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 ...

This is a book that contains many insights. Reinterpreting Libertarianism deserves the attention of all friends of freedom in Generation Z as well as in earlier ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

From its beginnings as a distinct ideological movement in the postwar years, libertarianism has been a set of outsider ideas vastly disrespected by most American politicians and intellectuals. It was ...