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 ...

This open letter was addressed by Murray Rothbard to the libertarians attending the YAF national convention in St. Louis during the Labor Day weekend of 1969.

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

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

Brad Lips is the chief executive officer of Atlas Network, which increases opportunity and prosperity by strengthening a global network of independent civil society organizations that promote ...

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 ...

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.