Walker Haskins is a consultant with AIER’s visiting research fellowship program and was previously a program assistant at AIER. Walker is presently pursuing graduate coursework in social science ...

An episode interviewing Matt Zwolinski about the life and thought of Joseph Hiam Levy, a late nineteenth- century British philosopher and member of the Personal Rights Association.

In this article, B. R. Shenoy —one of India’s most prominent free- market economists—talks about the differences in the economic models followed by East and West Germany. Shenoy, a key critic of state ...

The US Social Security system can’t fulfill its promises, but Australia’s system gives its people a better shot at a comfortable retirement.

The 19th- century Englishman Richard Cobden is famous for abolishing the Corn Laws, a great victory for free trade, which has inspired free marketeers across the globe.

George H. Smith turns to what may be Roy Childs’s most recognized role in the libertarian movement: book reviewer.

Smith explains some fundamental tenets of the moral sense school of ethics, especially as found in the writings of Francis Hutcheson.

In Knowledge and Decisions (1980), Thomas Sowell claims that “the delegation of decision making to ‘experts’ [has] become the central feature…of the intellectual’s vision of political and social ...

After discussing some implications of early works on international law for libertarian theory, Smith concludes with a defense of Ayn Rand’s theory of rights.

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Havel’s Place in Georgetown, an episode dedicated to the dissidents of Czechoslovakia responsible for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, overthrowing the brutal ...

The philosophical principles underpinning rape law have changed over time. What’s the next step in our understanding of the issue?

Smith discusses Butler’s influential theory of psychology and his ideas about self- interest and benevolence.