Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Thou sweet dictator of the human breast, as soon as we lose sight of thee, we forfeit our happiness here as well as hereafter ...

In this episode, Jonathan Fortier and Bruce Pardy discuss some of the ways that the government response to COVID (both in Canada and abroad) revealed the fragility of individual freedom in the face of ...

Jason Sorens briefly noted this in his overview of liberty in the year behind and ahead, and Cato’s Colleen Hroncich has laid it out in more detail. In 2023, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah all ...

Josiah Wedgwood was an industrialist, abolitionist, inventor, and in many respects the first modern philanthropist.

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Havel’s Place in Georgetown, an episode dedicated to the dissidents of Czechoslovakia responsible for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, overthrowing the brutal ...

Content moderation is the private governance of speech by digital intermediaries such as social media platforms, web forums, and hosting providers. It is a superficially simple concept: platform ...

At the highest level of generality, justice requires giving others their due. Some libertarians have argued that giving others their due entails merely that each of us refrain from initiating physical ...

Intellectual, poet, and playwright Václav Havel began life on the fringes of Communist Czechoslovakia. Alongside fellow dissidents, Václav played a vital role in the Velvet Revolution, peacefully ...

José Martí tirelessly fought for the cause of Cuban Independence for all of his life and became a national hero.

The classical liberals of the 18 th, 19 th, and much of the 20 th century positioned themselves as opponents of what they termed “privilege.” For these thinkers, privilege referred to the monopolies, ...