Jonathan Fortier talks with Bruce Pardy, Professor of Law at Queen’s University and Executive Director of Rights Probe. Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, ...

Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. He is an academic, lawyer, columnist, and ...

From the Wisconsin territorial capitol, Abram D. Smith captivated his audience with tales of an electrified future of global republicanism. Virtually no one is aware that Abram D. Smith ever existed.

To commemorate the 175th anniversary of Frédéric Bastiat’s libertarian classic The Law, we delve into Bastiat’s intellectual legacy. There is perhaps no writer better at articulating the economic way ...

Francisco de Victoria was a Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian who lived during the Spanish Renaissance. He is the founder of the School of Salamanca and was pivotal in shaping the conversation ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

John Locke lays out the foundational arguments of liberalism: people have rights preexisting government, and government exists to protect those rights. Nicknamed the "Father of Liberalism," Locke's ...

Spooner argues in this radical essay that the Constitution, which he frames as a legal contract, is not binding. The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or ...

Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments included this passage about spontaneous order vs planned economy. Adam Smith was a Scottish political philosopher and economist, considered one of the ...

Puzzling through the theories, history, and practice of liberty.

Portraits of Liberty investigates the lives and philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued in favor of a freer world.

In this excerpt from *Social Statics*, Spencer makes a radical claim: that an individual may sever all connections with the state. ##1. The Right to Voluntary Outlawry As a corollary to the ...