Lloyd supported no institutions or laws, “but an ideal to be realized [as] character will permit by those who freely accept it.” In March 1897, J. William Lloyd, columnist for Moses Harman’s Lucifer, ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end of World War II. In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2025. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past ...

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, ...

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

Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government. There is, I fear, no time like the present to remind ourselves of ...

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

Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one’s consent to be governed. Lysander Spooner was never one to respect a piece of unjust legislation. As we ...

In 1837, John Lewis O’Sullivan and his brother established The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in Washington, D.C., and it soon became one of the most important periodicals in American ...

Spooner exposes the great Government Conspiracy and seeks to assign moral responsibility for the actions of a criminal gang shielded by mythological legitimacy.

In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow- governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves. For our final number, we turn to Spooner’s ...