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Sep 01 2020
Analysis
Bourgeois Libertarianism Can Save America
As various American cities descend into weeks or even monthslong street disorder, launched by anger and anguish over police brutality, standard American political ideas and groups seem equally powerless to preserve the domestic tranquility for which Americans theoretically give over large chunks of our fortunes and our choices to government. Many of these protests have evolved into generalized
ReasonAug 30 2020
Analysis
Bourgeois Libertarianism Can Save America
As various American cities descend into weeks or even monthslong street disorder, launched by anger and anguish over police brutality, standard American political ideas and groups seem equally powerless to preserve the domestic tranquility for which Americans theoretically give over large chunks of our fortunes and our choices to government. Many of these protests have evolved into generalized
ReasonOct 21 2022
Analysis
Truss's demise ends the revival of Thatcher's libertarian economics
Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss's brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated British economy for at least a generation.
Pryor, who works at the Adam Smith Institute in London, laughs bitterly at the irony that Truss, who said on Thursday she would resign, was forced to abandon
ReutersMay 12 2020
Analysis
The Libertarian Party Critique of Justin Amash
With less than two weeks left before 1,000 or so Libertarian Party delegates select their 2020 presidential and vice presidential nominees in an unprecedented online-only vote, you could probably forgive Jacob Hornberger for being a little irritable.
Hornberger, the 70-year-old founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, has, after all, won a clear majority of the party's presidential
ReasonMay 22 2020
Analysis
Is America too libertarian to deal with the coronavirus?
Why widespread testing in the country may not work.
America’s public health experts are working hard to map out a plan to combat the coronavirus in America. And there are indeed many proposals — from academic centers, from think tanks, and from the government.
While the plans differ, nearly all of them rely on some combination of surveillance, mass testing, isolation, and contact
VoxApr 29 2020
News
Justin Amash Is Running for President as a Libertarian
The previously independent five-term Michigan congressman joins the L.P. and takes aim at the septuagenarian competition.
More than three years after first seriously contemplating it, one year after coming out in favor of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, nine months after leaving the Republican Party, two months after hitting pause on his congressional reelection
ReasonAug 11 2017
News
Silicon Valley’s Libertarian Paradise Lost
Google betrays the reason for its own existence.
The American SpectatorJul 08 2017
Opinion
Russia's Global Anti-Libertarian Crusade
One of the surreal twists of the past year in American politics has been the rapid realignment in attitudes toward Russia. Democrats, many of whom believe that Russian interference was key to Donald Trump's unexpected victory last November, are now the ones sounding the alarm about the Russian threat. Meanwhile, quite a few Republicans—previously the keepers of the anti-Kremlin Cold War flame—
Guest Writer - Right