David S. D’Amato

From talk radio to social media, the left and right offer unprincipled, self‐​serving views on free speech. What should libertarians think?

Party loyalties hinder the brain’s ability to get a handle on reality.

A book review of Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin by Alberto Mingardi.

Ammon Hennacy believed he had a duty as a Christian to help others directly and to oppose the state.

If the modern police force is first and foremost a tool of oppression and predation, we ought to build different institutions to respond to crimes.

While Karl Marx hated Pierre‐​Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate.

In the pages of Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty, James L. Walker defended a brand of egoism similar to Max Stirner’s.

Defying categorization as a socialist or capitalist thinker, Josiah Warren was staunchly individualist–distrustful of institutions like states that subsumed individuals into “combinations.”

The 1619 Project and the debate it spurred have both been fraught with conceptual and historical misunderstandings about the relationship between slavery and free markets.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it carve out a spot for secretive bureaucracies that never have to answer to the public.

The advent of the modern state did not usher in an era of unprecedented peace.

“[S]chools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.”

Henry Clarke Wright was a radical among radicals, driven by a religious conviction in the equality of all people.

We must overcome our political‐​cultural group affinities if we wish to see things as they are: the problem isn’t ultimately who controls the state, but the state itself.

Libertarianism is, fundamentally, an other‐​regarding philosophy that emphasizes our obligations to refrain from dominating others and from imposing our vision of the good life on them.