Smith explains why benevolence is desirable but justice is essential to how we measure our behavior in the eyes of others. Adam Smith was a Scottish political philosopher and economist, considered one ...

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be ...

Tocqueville warns of the dangers from a nurturing government “extending its arm over the whole community.” I had remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, ...

Wollstonecraft argues the case for women’s rights entirely in libertarian terms of equal and natural rights.

The objections to government interference, when it is not such as to involve infringement of liberty, may be of three kinds.

Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a ...

Anarchism is a theory of society without the state in which the market provides all public goods and services, such as law and order. Although most anarchists oppose all large institutions, public or ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion.

Smith explains Kant’s basic justification of government and why he opposed the rights of resistance and revolution.

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty.

The modern state is a contingent historical development, born in blood- - not a permanent or inevitable feature of human society.