In this excerpt from *Social Statics*, Spencer makes a radical claim: that an individual may sever all connections with the state. ##1. The Right to Voluntary Outlawry As a corollary to the ...

Kant discusses his theory of the state, concluding, “Whatever a people cannot impose upon itself cannot be imposed upon it by the legislator either.” Immanuel Kant is considered to be one of the ...

Lao- Tzu urges that the people be largely left alone; if they are not harassed by the state, they can manage their own affairs well enough. This excerpt from James Legge’s 1891 translation of the Tao ...

There is perhaps no writer better at articulating the economic way of thinking and exposing the myths that plague political debate than the Frenchman Frédéric Bastiat. During his short life (1801-1850 ...

In this excerpt from The Rights of Man, here Thomas Paine argues that the order naturally observed in human society is not the result of government. Great part of that order which reigns among mankind ...

So far, Menger has gently revised Classical Economics. Once subjective and marginal utility enter the equation, though: a revolution is underway. So far in our explorations in early Austrianism, Carl ...

Minocher Rustom “Minoo” Masani was an Indian politician, a leading figure of the erstwhile Swatantra Party, a three- time Member of Parliament, and was among the founders of the Indian Liberal Group ...

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, ...

In this essay from What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1911), Sumner denounces social reformers who want to run other people’s lives. William Graham Sumner held a professorship in political economy ...

“The Church, indeed, taken as a whole, has been constantly changing—constantly advancing—her history is diversified and progressive.” [Church society] was almost completely organized before the close ...