Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. What is experimental economics? How does property work? What chaos...
On May 12, 2021, the Federalist Society’s Austin, Dallas, and Houston lawyers chapters cohosted a webinar panel discussing “Occupational Regulations vs. Economic Liberty.” The tension between economic liberty and the state’s power...
It’s been thirty years since the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Why have so many of today’s politicians and intellectuals failed to learn the lessons of the fall of the Berlin Wall? And what can we learn about this issue from Ayn Rand’s perspective...
George Will discusses liberalism, conservatism, and the future of American political ideology with Institute for Humane Studies president Emily Chamlee-Wright. This wide-ranging conversation includes discussion of Will’s recent book “The...
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians that work to influence the legal profession and courts back towards limited government and the natural rights tradition. Administrative agencies...
What is the true nature of government? What role does it play in a free society? Milton Friedman explains. John Stuart Mill said, in effect, that self-protection is the only legitimate reason for people to interfere with the freedom of others. If we...
Democracy is still a new practice in the last millennium, and this book highlights how they develop. Click here for past recommendations. Description ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been...
The Tenth Amendment Center is dedicated to shrinking the size and scope of government through nullification. It is a peaceful means to check the power of the federal government by state and local governments. Published in response to the hated...
Learn Liberty is an excellent website and YouTube channel that breaks down libertarianism into digestible chunks. Where do rights come from? Prof. Aeon Skoble claims that there are several types of rights that come from various sources. For...
Free Thoughts is a great podcast from the Cato Institute. Daniel Klein explains how on regular issues of policy reform—presupposing a stable integrated polity— Hume, Smith, and Burke were liberal in the original political meaning of “liberal.” Thus...
