Libertarian Links and Resources

Dear Libertarian, Our party calls for the United States to end its policies of intervention and prohibition, which have fueled chaos and violence in Latin America and have led so many innocent people to seek asylum at the southern border. The failed […]

We look forward to seeing all of you in Austin for the 2020 National Libertarian Convention, which will be our biggest and most exciting ever. With this email we are launching the first phase of our 2020 Pay-to-Play Libertarian National Convention […]

  The following is a list of dates of interest to Libertarians in 2019, compiled by Dr. James Lark, Libertarian National Committee regional representative and former LNC chair.   January 6 Pres. Franklin Roosevelt delivers his “Four […]

CONTACT: Jess Mears, Membership Manager: [email protected] or (202) 750-0892 To show their commitment to voluntarism, members of the Libertarian Party organized a trash cleanup of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. National parks have […]

On Jan. 8, Jeff Hewitt was sworn in to his new seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in California, a ceremonial beginning to his term of office conducted by Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark. After being sworn in, […]

If you turned on the news last week, you probably saw images of overflowing trash at national parks during the government shutdown. When a Libertarian Party member in another state suggested that Libertarians organize a trash pickup at the National […]

On Nov. 8, Libertarian Jeff Hewitt was elected to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in California, arguably the largest win in Libertarian Party history. Riverside County has a population of nearly 2.5 million, which makes it the […]

The partial federal government shutdown is entering its fourth week. So far, the biggest inconvenience to the general public seems to be overflowing trash cans in national parks. Libertarians advocate private, voluntary solutions to public problems, […]

It’s no secret that Libertarians believe the federal government does too much. Everyone who can read a balance sheet agrees that the federal government does more than it can afford to do, spending far more money than it takes in. The two old […]

The United States began air strikes in Syria more than four years ago, with a rationale for intervention that morphed from fighting Islamic State terrorists to demanding regime change. More than three years ago, the United States sent in ground […]

John Bogle's life is a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money. […]

John Bogle's life is a reminder that in capitalism you can make a fortune by saving your customers money. […]

Good decisions in some cases, judicial nullification in some others. […]

National School Choice Week, an annual event designed to promote educational options for K-12 students and parents, is underway. […]

The op ed explains why this option is not legal - and why it would set a dangerous precedent if the president succeeded in doing it. […]

It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy. […]

The land of the free keeps a tight leash on its kids. […]

It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy. […]

In the home of the brave, a kid can't hold a pencil on the school bus. […]

Security at Jefferson Elementary School in Warren, Ohio, escorted the school resource officer from campus after he ticketed the principal for parking in a handicapped zone. A spokesman for the officer's union says the officer had warned the […]

Journalists who uncritically accepted Nathan Phillips' story got this completely wrong. […]

Parties sometimes wait until their brief is filed before asking for an amicus brief -- but that usually leaves just days or at most a few weeks for the amicus to write the brief. […]

"That's me!" jokes Bill Weld, while calling Amash a "hero" and encouraging the congressman to run. […]

Marijuana is fully legal in 10 states, which are home to eight NFL teams (25 percent of the league), including the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. […]

It will be an unwelcome development in the culture wars if companies only sell software to businesses or government agencies seen as politically aligned. […]

Paying customers may be the next targets for social media "deplatforming." […]

The op ed describes the extensive harm likely to be caused by condemning the large amounts of private property that would need to be seized to build the wall. […]

But Democrats shouldn't simply walk away. […]

We're accepting applications through March 1. […]

Earlier this week, Canada rolled out sweeping new food regulations, adopted under a law dubbed the Safe Food for Canadians Act (SFCA). The regulations will be phased in over a period of several years. That harmonizing and streamlining of laws and […]

Small producers are already feeling the pain of Canada's new food safety law. […]

Leavers aren’t the sinister, racist, champagne wasters they’re made out to be. […]

Leavers aren’t the sinister, racist, champagne wasters they’re made out to be. […]

Apparently he was suffering from methanol poisoning his liver, and administering ethanol seems to make the methanol less harmful. […]

The claim stemmed from the Times' published statements "questioning the accuracy of a blog post plaintiff wrote for The Times," and the Times' decision not to publish more work from Rall. […]

Some members of Congress still care about private property. […]

Nancy Rommelmann and Leah McSweeney on the "toxic femininity" of Asia Argento, anti-Semitism at the Women's March, and 21st-century sexual liberation. […]

The Washington Examiner story relies on a single, anonymous source who has no evidence to support her claims. It serves only to confirm existing biases. […]

Desperate circumstances, deceptive edits, and the rule of orderliness. […]

No good deed goes unpunished. […]

In 2019 the investment world will start to realise that asset markets don’t grow to heaven as stocks, bonds and property start their long journey down which will eventually lead to declines of 75% to 95% in real terms. But the major risk is […]

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases such as […]

A professor at the University of Notre Dame is argued that higher education is drowning in “bullshit” in a recent column for the Chronicle. Writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Notre Dame Professor Christian […]

The goal of the Cultural Revolution isn’t to persuade, it’s to enforce compliance. A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial […]

“No war is over until the enemy says it’s over,” James Mattis, the former Marine Corps General and recently resigned secretary of state, is quoted as saying. “We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in […]

Since Trump’s election, the dream uniting all Democrats is to impeach the president.  Having won the House and with a mere majority necessary to initiate Articles of Impeachment, that dream will finally come true – never mind […]

Nancy Pelosi (D – Boomers) has a problem. Scratch that, she has a number of problems, non counting her own ethical and moral shortcomings. Pelosi is the Queen of Projection. She projects an air of invincibility while also projecting her […]

There is a saying that goes, if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. But what if you’re paying for it – and you’re still the product? Welcome to your next new car – previewed at […]

If there’s one thing everyone in today’s Washington can agree on, it’s that whenever an official or someone being paid by the government says something truly outrageous or dangerous, there should be consequences, if only a fleeting […]

On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of over 60 prominent American citizens is calling upon Congress to reopen the investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King […]

If President Trump holds firm on the shutdown until January 20, 2021, he will have struck the greatest blow for liberty and against bureaucracy in American political history. To achieve this, all that he to do is nothing. In doing this, he will have […]

What is the biggest healthcare mistake?    Taking calcium pills to ward off bone loss (osteoporosis) among females. A shortage of estrogen induces loss of bone, not a shortage of calcium; estrogen replacement or molecules that mimic […]

It is manifestly contrary to the interest of the consumers to prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities up to the limit to which the public approves of their conduct of business by buying their products. […]

[From The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018). For the full issue, click here.] Few scholars disagree that Austrian economists and their fellow travelers have made significant contributions to law and economics. Anyone […]

The academic scholar, along with the great teacher, is vanishing from the faculties of the universities. Specialists occupy the places that they leave. The first victims of this process are the students. When the professorial specialists hold a […]

[This article is excerpted from Economic Controversies, chapter 21, "The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector'" (2011). It originally appeared in the New Individualist Review (Summer, 1961): 3–7.]   We have heard a great deal in recent years of […]

I never thought I would see the day where Antifa would protest side by side with the National Front against the French government. The day has come, and what it means for France is unclear at best. We spent last Saturday at “Act 9” of […]

Conventional wisdom says that savings is the amount of money left after monetary income was used for consumer outlays, implying that saving is synonymous with money. Hence, for a given consumer outlays an increase in money income implies more saving […]

This is the last Mises Weekends episode! But don't despair, Jeff will soon be back with a brand new format: The Human Action Podcast. The new show is not radically different, but focuses more exclusively on Austrian economics, its great books, and […]

The partial shutdown with the federal government has helped, perhaps more than any other recent political event, to illustrate some of the biggest problems that come with centralizing an ever-larger number of government activities within a single, […]

With the government shutdown now entering its fourth week, it seems that it’s left many political pundits clamoring for an excuse to wash their party’s blame from the situation. Perhaps the most glaring example came from Paul […]

How do we know that a treatment works or not? Billions of healthcare dollars are at stake in the answer to that question. For decades, that answer has largely hinged on theories from a field of human inquiry that combines the precision of […]

As humans, we want to satisfy our needs in the present rather than the future. This is a fundamental truth of human action. If we preferred to satisfy needs in the future over the present, we would never act. An individual’s time preference […]

January 6 marked the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s famous 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech, and January 11 marked the anniversary of his 1944 State of the Union address, where he expanded on what he saw as its meaning. That makes […]

Gene Epstein, former Barron’s economics editor and founder of the Soho Forum, joins Bob for a lively discussion covering a variety of topics. Gene explains that his mother, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, had an FBI file and was […]

During this partial government shutdown, it's become nearly impossible to avoid news articles, and segments on television and radio outlining the many ways that federal employees are apparently suffering financially as a result of the partial […]

Why is politics so negative compared to marketing — its analog in the private sector — even though virtually every candidate echoes the desire to "just get along"? The explanation revolves around two important ways political […]

Even after ten weeks, the "yellow vest" protests in France continue. Mass protests such as these, with their violence and destruction, have not been seen in France for decades. The basic narrative of these events is well known. Macron was elected […]

Franklin Roosevelt did more than any other modern president to corrupt Americans’ understanding of freedom. Last week was the 75th anniversary of his 1944 speech calling for a second Bill of Rights to guarantee economic freedom to Americans. […]

[From the Summer 2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. A review of How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chitu, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018, 250 pp.] The […]

Is Venezuela paying the price for adopting gun control? The shocking nature of Venezuela’s economic collapse has been covered ad nauseam. However, one aspect of the Venezuelan crisis that does not receive much coverage is the country’s […]

Season 3, Episode 40  The Union’s response to the Confederate ironclad was an iron warship of its own. Unlike the Merrimack, the USS Monitor was a tremendous technological innovation, nearly single-handedly designed by a Swedish engineer […]

Argentina maintains a high country risk. In fact,  it is currently the second highest in Latin America and the third of the emerging countries if we include Turkey. What is the country risk? It is the spread between the yield of the sovereign […]

[Omnipotent Government (1944)] Among the infinity of fallacious statements and factual errors that go to form the structure of Marxian philosophy there are two that are especially objectionable. Marx asserts that capitalism causes increasing […]

Paul Krugman was the featured speaker at a special session of the 2004 Southern Economic Association meetings, held the weekend before Thanksgiving, and a number of economists listened intently as the most famous man at the conference spoke […]

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Most libertarians are familiar with Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex and its nefarious influence on US foreign policy. Many have read Major General Smedley Butler’s short book War is a Racket, in […]

[Originally published in The Review of Austrian Economics 9 (2), 1996.]   The very term "public utility" … is an absurd one. Every good is useful "to the public," and almost every good … may be considered "necessary." Any […]

We have become highly sensitized to the question of conflict of interest in healthcare—and rightly so. But the dominant narrative seems to be one-sided: doctors and scientists getting personally paid by industry sponsors and letting those […]

[Adapted from a classroom lecture delivered November 14, 2018.] Scholars and scientists tell us that humanity is two or three hundred thousand years old, depending on how you define it. If you draw a graph with a horizontal line across a […]

Grove City College will host the fifteenth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 22-23, 2019. Open to undergraduates and graduate students in any academic discipline, the ASSC will bring together students from colleges and […]

Angela Merkel’s chancellorship is ending. It is time for an evaluation. She has ruled Germany since 2005. After the election in September 2017 she began her fourth term, yet in October 2018, she abdicated as the chairman of her political […]

Newly elected congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not be the expert on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict or what the three branches of the American government are, but she certainly thinks herself an expert on tax and energy policy. Her […]

Whether its CNBC, or The New York Times, or NPR, the mainstream media is clearly committed to using the current partial government shutdown to portray federal workers as beleaguered victims of the American political system. But, in all cases I've […]

Dr. Joe Salerno will address the annual Students for Liberty conference this week on the topic of his seminal article, "Mises on Nationalism, the Right of Self Determination, and the Problem of Immigration." While Mises had plenty to say about […]

The Transportation Security Administration, a federal agency, is facing a no-show problem with employees, as paychecks are put on hold during the partial government shutdown. This is reportedly leading to longer lines and security problems at […]

[Note: Henry Hazlitt considered The Foundations of Morality to be his most important work. The following two reviews of that book were found in one of the many boxes of papers generously given to the Mises Institute by Bettina Bien Greaves. Bettina […]

Whenever the so-called economy shows signs of weakness most experts are of the view that what is required to prevent the economy sliding into recession is to boost the overall demand for goods and services. If the private sector fails to increase […]

[This article originally appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1960, pp. 659–665. Reprinted in The Logic of Action Two: Applications and Criticism from the Austrian School. Glos., UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997, pp. […]

Children working in factories with hazardous working conditions in pollution ridden cities are some of the images historians enjoy using when covering the Gilded Age of American history — the period following the American Civil War up until […]

Bob provides an introductory framework on how to analyze the economics of immigration, as well as the politics involved in this controversial topic. The point isn't to pick sides, but to sharpen everyone's arguments. For example, make sure your […]

Socialism’s popularity is reviving in America.  Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez captured a seat in the new Congress and is calling for confiscatory tax rates at the same time Democratic Socialist candidates are thriving in many areas […]

It doesn't take great insight to assert that healthcare waste is rampant. There is an obvious epidemic of testing and treatments that make no difference in patients' lives or could possible even harm. But what is the cause of the epidemic and […]

[Chapter 3 of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School. This chapter is adapted from a paper delivered at the general meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, in Cannes, September, 1994.] Bankrolling Adam Smith? Ronald Coase, Nobel Laureate […]

What is money, where does it come from and more importantly where does it go? At first glance, it might appear inexplicable and bizarre that our governments and our rulers have managed to keep their stronghold over the monetary system for 2000 […]

Season 3, Episode 39  On March 8, 1862, the ironclad Merrimack — renamed the CSS Virginia — was tested in battle against three of the Union’s most powerful wooden ships. The outcome of the battle would usher in a new age of […]

Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.” Moyn attributes the term cultural Marxism to the “runaway alt-right […]

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The Mont Pèlerin Society had begun as an "ecumenical" undertaking, bringing together purebred liberals of the classical tradition and neoliberals, who endorsed interventionist schemes to one degree or another. From the beginning, Mises had […]

There’s a growing buzz around a “Green New Deal,” spearheaded by newly-elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Although the details are in flux, currently the draft text calls for the creation of a 15-member […]

With the recent legalization of hemp in the United States, one may ask the question of why it was ever illegal to begin with. Being a non-psychoactive form of cannabis, its uses were entirely industrial. One need not be a libertarian to recognize […]

[Editors note: Recently the Mises Institute received a box of documents belonging to Murray Rothbard from our friend Justin Raimondo. We will make new material available online as we work through the collection. The following is an […]

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Readers Write: Broadband projects, population growth, assisted suicide, youth sports and concussions  Star TribuneWell, really — who could possibly be opposed to “freedom”? So I guess I should be glad when I see Annette […]

MSU post-election poll: Independent voters key in MT's 2018 Senate, House races  KPAX-TVThis is the first of a three-part series on MTN-MSU's post-election poll. BOZEMAN – Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester defeated Republican […]

Hating government won’t improve it  SFGate“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.''' Ronald Reagan's 1986 statement still invokes ... […]

Sen. Kamala Harris’s 2020 policy agenda: $3 trillion tax plan, tax credits for renters, bail reform, Medicare for all  The Washington PostA policy guide to the California senator running for president. […]

John Stossel: Shutdown ‘crisis’  Mountain DemocratThis government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.” “Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!” says […]

The Constitution and Beto's Question: A Libertarian Answer  Being LibertarianA while ago, renowned Democrat and former Texas congressman, Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke, questioned the validity and relevance of the a document […]

What Defenders of Liberty Need to Know  New IdealIn this course designed for students new to Objectivism, philosophers Onkar Ghate and Gregory Salmieri outline Ayn Rand's view of what liberty is and what it ... […]

Good and Bad Left-Libertarians - Opting Out  Being LibertarianThere are two kinds of anarcho-lefties. The first are the left-libertarians, who fundamentally agree with me and other libertarians regarding the proper use of force ... […]

State law unfairly insulates two-party system  The CT MirrorAmerican politics are polarized by a two-party system in which each major party appeals to those furthest from the center. This polarization has been credibly ... […]

Funding Hate: The Far-Right’s Pivot to Crypto  CointelegraphAs controversial figures on the right find themselves deplatformed, they increasingly turn to crypto for fundraising. […]

Uncontrolled increase of our population - Opinion  Citizens VoiceEditor: I just discovered the Libertarian Party is 100 percent for free migration without borders. There are 7.5 billion people in the world and 80 percent make less ... […]

Dionne: The Shutdown Trap: Hating government won't improve it  The Register-Guard“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.‴. Ronald Reagan's 1986 statement […]

Student addresses ‘misinformation’ and ‘outright lies’ about incident with Native American man | TheHill  The HillThe Catholic high school student at the center of a viral controversy claimed on Sunday that reports […]

National Parks Are Kicking Out Libertarians… For Cleaning Them Up  71 RepublicA Facebook video shows a park ranger removing libertarian volunteers from a park for cleaning up without a permit. Advertisements. Mason Mohon on January […]

Politics week in review: Stefanik praises Trump's effort to end shutdown  Glens Falls Post-StarU.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, praised President Donald Trump's proposal to end the government shutdown, which would provide […]

Justin Amash: The Libertarian Party Shouldn't Nominate a 'Squishy' Republican in 2020 - Hit & Run : Reason.com  ReasonNick GillespieAsk a Libertarian which candidate he or she would most like to see run for president in 2020, and the […]

Racism: The Free Market Remedy – Eccentric Economics  Being LibertarianIs freedom an enabler of bigotry? Logan Davies answers in the negative. Instead, the free market system has done more to fight racism than any other. […]

Libertarian Group in Idaho Sues Boise for Taxing Mechanism  U.S. News & World ReportBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A libertarian think-tank in Idaho is suing Boise for diverting new tax revenue to fund the capitol city's urban renewal […]

When Women’s March gathers this year, so will a rival event for ‘all women’  WTOPThe competing rally and forum is organized by the Independent Women's Forum, which program director Julie Gunlock describes as a […]

Local Libertarian Party Helps Keep Yosemite Park clean  The Libertarian Republic"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” ― John Adams. […]

Just Sayin’: MLK’s wisdom needed today  NewsdayAs Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives, Long Island, like the country, feels increasingly divided and fragmented. Rhetoric gets ever more charged, we increasingly ... […]

Misconceptions of Being Morally Right & Factually Correct  Being LibertarianLast week, a quote from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) appearance on 60 Minutes went viral. During the interview, Anderson Cooper ... […]

John Stossel: Government shutdown lessons -- We could take a chainsaw to so much of government  Fox NewsThis government shutdown is now longer than any in history. During shutdowns, government tells “nonessential workers” not […]

Libertarian Palestinian-American House rep. fights antisemitism monitor  The Jerusalem Post - Israel NewsAmash, elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010, soon made a name for himself as a social media savant in painstakingly explaining every […]

Libertarian group joins pension reform session, and some aren't happy  Courier JournalFRANKFORT — The Kentucky legislature's *fresh*, bipartisan approach to pension reform may be short-lived. Several Democrats, advocates for retirees […]

BlazeTV adds libertarian, comedy fare to its pro-America line-up  Washington TimesBlazeTV, the independent media company launched in December by conservative titans Mark Levin and Glenn Beck, has expanded its programing to include ... […]

Is Bitcoin Still the Libertarian Dream? Jeff Berwick Thinks So  Finance MagnatesAnarcho-Capitalist Jeff Berwick acknowledges that we have a long way to go, but thinks Bitcoin is the panacea to the problems of the current monetary system. […]

Libertarian Party Members Continue Lobby for Ballot Access, Draft Legislation  All On GeorgiaLibertarian Party of Georgia members attended the 57th annual Wild Hog Supper earlier this week. The Wild Hog Supper, co-hosted by the Georgia […]

Stossel: Government Shutdown Shows Private Is Better  ReasonShutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential. […]

Why this libertarian-Palestinian-American congressman voted against a federal anti-Semitism monitor  HaaretzJustin Amash's unexplained vote against the anti-Semitism monitor is not the only occasion he has declined to discuss third-rail […]

Is Trump the 'Most Libertarian' President in Half a Century? - Red Dirt Liberty Report  Being LibertarianLet me state a few things upfront that will answer the title of this article in the negative: Trump is not a libertarian. There are a […]

West Tennessee Libertarians told to stop cleanup efforts at Shiloh National Park  Jackson SunMembers of the Libertarian Party in West Tennessee thought it would be nice to help clean up Shiloh National Military Park since most of the […]

Elci's libertarian views appear cold-hearted - News from southeastern Connecticut  theday.comLee Elci certainly laid out his political philosophy in stark and uncompromising terms with this debut column. It sparked many questions, however, […]

Libertarian Party organizes national park cleanups  Hot AirRepublicans and Democrats may be sniping at each other over the partial government shutdown, but it's the Libertarian Party which is putting words to action. […]

Volunteers clean up Lake Mead in wake of government shutdown  KLAS-TVThe partial federal government shut down continues to impact national parks, including Lake Mead. The Libertarian Party of Nevada organized a cleanup earlier ... […]

N.C. Libertarians clean up Guilford Courthouse National Military Park as shutdown continues  Greensboro News & RecordWhile the park didn't contain much litter on the ground, trash cans were getting full, according to the group, which […]

Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter  American GreatnessBy Spencer P. Morrison| 2019-01-12T17:59:18+00:00 January 12th, 2019|. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook FacebookShare to Twitter TwitterShare ... […]

Krugman: Trump’s big libertarian experiment  Palm Beach PostGovernment,” declared Ronald Reagan in his first inaugural address, “is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Republicans have […]

The Libertarian Experiment That Isn't | Cato @ Liberty  Cato InstituteAccording to Paul Krugman, the government shutdown amounts to a potentially big libertarian experiment. With nine departments and multiple agencies closed, ... […]

While Tucker Carlson falls into the victimhood trap, libertarianism can bring back civil society  Washington ExaminerLast week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson gave an impassioned monologue on his show about cultural decay, criticizing […]

Trump’s Big Libertarian Experiment  The New York Times“Government,” declared Ronald Reagan in his first Inaugural Address, “is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” Republicans have […]

Libertarian Party organizes Yosemite cleanup  Hanford SentinelHANFORD — Reports of trash piling up and human feces littering the state's most beautiful national parkland have surfaced amidst the government shutdown, ... […]

Texas Libertarian Ron Paul: We don't need Trump's border wall to stop illegal immigration  CNBCThe Trump administration should remove incentives for coming to the states, says former presidential candidate and Libertarian Ron Paul. […]

Libertarians plan to clean-up Hopewell National Park as government shutdown continues  ABC6OnYourSide.comCHILLICOTHE, OH — Kryssi Wichers' car is covered with Libertarian Party stickers, and she ran as a Libertarian candidate in a […]

Does Tucker Carlson Get Anything Right About Libertarians?: Podcast  ReasonFox News ChannelIt's rare that a 15-minute cable news spiel gets talked about even one day later, let alone five, but here we are with Fox News host Tucker ... […]

Imagining a Libertarian Society (It Looks A Lot Like . . . )  American GreatnessBy Karl Notturno| 2019-01-06T20:12:41+00:00 January 6th, 2019|. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook FacebookShare to Twitter TwitterShare to ... […]

Libertarians Clean Up National Parks During Government Shutdown  News2ShareAmidst an indefinite government shutdown, Libertarian Party activists gathered today in Washington DC to voluntarily clean up National Parks. […]

Here's why economist Brad DeLong believes libertarianism is essentially a form of white supremacy  SalonLibertarianism "is a Frankenstein's monster" that got its power from resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. […]

Here’s why this economist believes libertarianism is essentially a form of white supremacy  AlterNetLibertarianism occupies a peculiar spot in the American political landscape as an ideology that garners much more debate and […]

‘Live free or die, but don’t touch that plant’: A clash over marijuana in New Hampshire  The Boston GlobeWith marijuana legalization sweeping through New England, cannabis consumers in the “Live Free or Die” […]

Georgia's Budding Libertarian Movement  The National Interest OnlineA seat at the table for these upstart libertarians could mean a new direction for Georgia, a nation that emerged from decades of suppression from Soviet rule but ... […]

Charges Dismissed in Case of Former Iowa Libertarian Candidate Accused of Harassing Woman  WHO TV Des MoinesDES MOINES, Iowa -- Charges have been dismissed in the case of a former Iowa Libertarian candidate accused of harassing a woman. […]

How Fascist Sympathizers Hijacked Reddit's Libertarian Hangout  Mother JonesFor years, Reddit's most popular libertarian board, r/Libertarian, eschewed formal moderation in a bid to stay true to its ideology's anything-goes ethos. But over […]

Maine Libertarians lose party status  The Ellsworth AmericanELLSWORTH — The state's Libertarian Party has lost its party status, the Maine Secretary of State's Office announced Monday. The Libertarian Party did not. […]

Jeff Hewitt shows libertarians how to win  Press-EnterpriseSACRAMENTO – Many of my Republican friends chide me for being a “Losertarian,” a member of a party, the Libertarian Party, that is far better known for its ... […]

PULSE OF THE VOTERS: Election results didn't surprise Libertarian  Goshen NewsGOSHEN — For Goshen Libertarian Arlen Ambler, while the results of the Nov. 6 general election may have been disappointing for the most part, they […]

Iowa Libertarians lost major party status in 2018. Who’s to blame?  Des Moines RegisterA lackluster performance in Iowa's midterms has cost Libertarians the major party status they earned for the first time after the 2016 general […]

Facebook And Others In A Libertarian World  Seeking AlphaThe spread of information and information technology is bothering more and more people in a world where the spread of information and information technology ... […]

Ohio Libertarians may sue to keep ballot access  cleveland.comThe Libertarian Party of Ohio might soon be headed into yet another court battle over whether the state should continue to recognize it as a minor political party. […]

Rand Paul on How Libertarian Philosophy Can Connect Divided Partisans  Duke TodayWhat should we expect from Congress between January and the presidential election in 2020, now that Democrats have won back the House? Not much ... […]

Libertarians stand by their Senate candidate  Great Falls TribuneThe Montana Libertarian Party says it continues to endorse its candidate for U.S. Senate, even though he said last week he endorses a Republican. […]

Trump slams Donnelly over ads for Libertarian candidate | TheHill  The HillPresident Trump blasted Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) regarding a report the Indiana Democratic Party is purchasing ads to boost the Libertarian candidate in The ... […]

Third party a throw-away vote? Libertarians don’t think so.  GoDanRiver.comIn a political and media landscape dominated by blue and red, senate candidate Matt Waters, a Libertarian, is trying to cut through the noise. […]

The libertarian think tank Niskanen Center is abandoning libertarianism  QuartzFor millions of people, ideology is the lighthouse in a dark sea of politics. An uncompromising vision of how the world is supposed to work, and how to fix it, […]

Libertarian backs Republican in Montana Senate race surprise  Star TribuneThe Libertarian candidate in Montana's U.S. Senate race threw his support behind his Republican opponent Wednesday in a surprise move that came in ... […]

'It’s dirty politics’: Libertarian Party members unhappy after candidate endorses incumbent Lee in NC Senate r  WECTWILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Members of the Libertarian Party expressed disappointment after Ethan Bickley, a […]

Libertarian Could Trigger Runoff in Georgia Governor's Race  U.S. News & World ReportSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Ted Metz may not get many votes for Georgia governor on Election Day. But the Libertarian candidate is on the ballot, […]

Indiana Senate race 2018: Who is Libertarian Lucy Brenton?  Indianapolis StarDemocrat Sen. Joe Donnelly and Republican Mike Braun can't afford to ignore Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton and her spoiler role. […]

Meet Libertarian Virginia senate candidate Matt Waters: ‘Politicians in both parties are not being honest’  WTVR CBS 6 NewsRICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate Matt Waters put the national […]

Elinor Swanson brings Libertarian principles to race for Montana's U.S. House seat  Billings GazetteElinor Swanson has a dream in which her rival candidates for U.S. House come to see things her way. It's exactly what a candidate focused […]

Editorial board endorsement: Dan Fishman, a Libertarian, for auditor  The Boston GlobeAn auditor without any partisan axes to grind could shake up the state. In that spirit, the Globe endorses Daniel Fishman of Beverly, the Libertarian […]

Who is Ted Metz, Georgia’s Libertarian candidate for governor?  Atlanta Journal ConstitutionTed Metz will almost certainly not be Georgia's next governor. Just in case, the Libertarian candidate has a plan for the day he takes the […]

How I Became a Libertarian - Hit & Run : Reason.com  ReasonOn our 50th birthday, Reason staffers share their philosophical origin stories. […]

Why Virginia’s Libertarian candidates struggle to be both seen and heard  WTVR CBS 6 NewsLacking money, as well as public and media attention, third-party candidates in Virginia's congressional races rarely get the attention to mount […]

A Libertarian Finds Common Ground with Black Lives Matter  Maine PublicI want to make something clear before I begin. I'm conservative. I disagree with a premise of the Black Lives Matter movement: that the police force in. […]

Libertarian Candidate Wants New Yorkers to Be 'Happy'  Cornell University The Cornell Daily SunNew York State Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Larry Sharpe emphasized individual rights and advocated for the legalization of marijuana […]

Libertarian Party sees good chance to win ballot line  Times Union ALBANY — New York Libertarian Party officials say they anticipate the minor party will finally gain automatic ballot access this fall by surpassing the required ... […]

Travis Irvine: Ohio's Libertarian candidate for governor made and starred in a movie about killer raccoons  Cincinnati.comLibertarian governor candidate Travis Irvine talks humor in politics, pitfalls of being a Libertarian in a two-party […]

Sick of Democrats vs. Republicans? So are Michigan's Libertarians, a party on the rise  Detroit Metro TimesAt a campaign stop at Michigan State University last month, Bill Gelineau — the Libertarian Party candidate running to be […]

Libertarian candidates tackle obstacles to keep place on ballot  The Detroit NewsMichigan Libertarian Party candidates are playing to win in what will be their first general election as a major party on Nov. 6. […]

Libertarian governor candidate Jake Porter says Iowans' votes for him would not be wasted  Des Moines RegisterIowans who back Libertarian Jake Porter for governor on Nov. 6 will be pushing forward important ideas, not throwing away their […]

Libertarian candidate for governor still fighting for recognition in Michigan  MLive.comLANSING, MI - When the candidates for governor take the stage for two debates in October, you won't see Bill Gelineau, the Libertarian candidate for […]

Libertarians threaten legal action to get into governor debates  Dayton Daily NewsThe Libertarian Party of Ohio is threatening to take legal action against organizers of gubernatorial debates that exclude Libertarian Travis Irvine and […]

Libertarian gubernatorial primary still up in the air; candidates allege voter suppression  The Keene SentinelMore than 24 hours after the polls closed in New Hampshire's primary election Tuesday, Libertarian voters still didn't know who […]

New Arizona law keeps Libertarians off ballot — just as GOP wanted  Arizona Daily StarLibertarian leader vows backlash of votes for Democrats. […]

Libertarian candidates on sidelines in general election  Arizona Capitol TimesFor the first time in more than two decades, Arizonans won't have the option to vote for a Libertarian Party candidate for governor. […]

Libertarian Party threatens legal action against Ohio Debate Commission over exclusion from gubernatorial debate  cleveland.comTravis Irvine is demanding to be on stage for the Oct. 8 debate in Cleveland. […]

Libertarian aims to be an alternative to Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz  Corpus Christi Caller-TimesLittle-known Libertarian Neal Dikeman could siphon enough votes to scramble the field in Texas' U.S. Senate race. […]

Could A Libertarian Win A Senate Race This Year?  FiveThirtyEightWelcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week You know when you go see a good popcorn movie and the fun sidekick character ... […]

Results from the 2018 Libertarianism vs. Conservatism Post-Debate Survey  Cato InstituteFollowing this year's Libertarianism vs. Conservatism intern debate, the Cato Institute conducted a survey of attendees to ask who they thought won the […]

Jilletta Jarvis, Libertarian candidate for governor  WMUR ManchesterJilletta Jarvis is a libertarian candidate for governor of New Hampshire in 2018. Birth date/place: Advertisement. Related *Content*. Libertarian gubernatorial ... […]

Libertarian gubernatorial candidates aim to break 'two-party monopoly'  WMUR ManchesterThe Libertarian Party has full ballot status in New Hampshire for the first time in more than 20 years, meaning there are contested primary elections, […]

Jake Porter at Register's Soapbox: Winning unlikely, but Libertarians can shift policy  Des Moines RegisterJake Porter: Winning is unlikely, but governor candidacy can still change policies. […]

A Libertarian Case for the Common Good  America MagazineI was sitting in a nondescript hotel ballroom, press credential strung around my neck, listening to the opening remarks at a conference in Washington, D.C. On ... […]

Two candidates face off in historic Libertarian primary  The Detroit NewsIn a first in Michigan history, two Libertarian gubernatorial candidates will battle on the ballot for their party's nomination for governor. John Tatar and Bill ... […]

Two candidates face off in Michigan's first Libertarian gubernatorial primary  Michigan RadioMichigan Libertarians usually nominate their candidate for governor at a party convention. But this year, voters will choose the nominee. The […]

Pennsylvania Libertarians file for governor, Senate ballots  Allentown Morning CallThe Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania's nominees for U.S. Senate and governor are filing signatures to get on November's election ballot, helped by a […]

Libertarians, independents and write-ins: Here are Texas' non-major party options in 2018  The Texas TribuneTexas has eight independent candidates running for office, and the Libertarians will be on the statewide ballot once again. by Alex […]

Libertarians in the Age of Trump  The New York TimesDid our populist president crush the libertarian moment, or co-opt it? […]

Can this libertarian restore conservatism?  Washington Post“This,” exclaimed Margaret Thatcher, thumping Friedrich Hayek's 500-page tome “The Constitution of Liberty” on a table in front of some Conservative Party […]