This essay explores Mill’s discussion of possible tensions between liberty and harm to others, especially in the context of ...

Juneteenth is rightly remembered as a celebration of freedom. But Douglass’s life and thought point us toward a deeper meaning: freedom is the opportunity to become self- directed, self- reliant, and ...

Most people learn that the American Revolution began over taxes. But the real conflict was much deeper: who has the right to rule? Barbara Galletti is the Senior Producer of Lib er tar i an ism .org.

Sarah Thomas surveys the recent history of mass surveillance in liberal democracies, highlighting the tension between freedom and security. A commitment to freedom through civil liberties and ...

This essay explores John Stuart Mill’s influential defense of unfettered free thought and discussion as necessary for discovering truth. Perhaps influenced by Rene Descartes, Mill defends the freedom ...

This essay explores chapters three and four of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, which discusses the value of human individuality and the threats it faces from the social dominance of custom and ...

Aaron N. Coleman is professor of history and chair of the History and Political Science Department at the University of the Cumberlands. He is the author of The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, ...

Farzin Rahimi Zonouz is a liberal philosopher and political activist in Iran. He holds a PhD in Political Science and specializes in political economy and political sociology. He has theorized the ...

Classical liberals must not cede the ground of patriotism to nationalists. Of all the fractures that divide America and other Western nations today, few are as sharp as that between liberalism and ...

Farzin Zonouz explores the moral and practical implications of taxation, and challenges us to imagine a world that operates through voluntarism, without the coercive practice of taxation of any kind.