Liberty. It’s a simple idea, but it’s also the linchpin of a complex system of values and practices: justice, prosperity, responsibility, toleration, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They’re called libertarians.

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Robert Higgs on the Rise and Fall of Leviathan

Robert Higgs is an economic historian whose writings focus on the causes and means of government growth. He is the author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1989).

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George H. Smith

The Coercive Acts and Their Theoretical Significance

The British response to the Boston Tea Party and the revolution-sparking Coercive Acts.

Aaron Ross Powell

Bad Philosophy and the Technocratic Nightmare: A Review of Sam Harris’s “The Moral Landscape”

Sam Harris’s book represents not just poor philosophical thinking but also a dangerous mode of thinking echoing early Progressivism. Libertarians should be deeply concerned by Harris’s take on morality.