Matt Zwolinski is right to emphasize that democracy is generally superior to authoritarianism, but wrong to suggest it should be a central libertarian commitment. Moreover, recent events highlight the...

Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem

Classical liberalism has sometimes been suspicious of democracy. But it shouldn’t be.

In every political system, wealthy and powerful people will try to write the rules to favor themselves. Liberal democracies should use a range of policy tools to resist elite capture.

Don’t fight over mere words. Understand what’s behind them.

Heading for 'uncharted' territory of becoming 'a citadel of ideological pluralism'

On the liberalism of productive ambiguity. And pineapples.

Not all labor unions are alike. Public sector unions face different incentives, and they often bargain away better governance.

Not all labor unions are alike. Public sector unions face different incentives, and they often bargain away better governance.

In case after case, the U.S. Supreme Court has made it easier for police to get away with harming the innocent. Radley Balko looks at how the federal courts have gutted our protections against police ...

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I talk about US murder trends a ton which usually involves a lot of numbers.

I have been reading Matt Zwolinski (San Diego) with admiration since the very first days of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians (hereafter BHL) blog over fifteen years ago or so.

In every political system, wealthy and powerful people will try to write the rules to favor themselves. Liberal democracies should use a range of policy tools to resist elite capture.

In every political system, wealthy and powerful people will try to write the rules to favor themselves. Liberal democracies should use a range of policy tools to resist elite capture.

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Concentrations of power are a danger, and a liberal society must reckon with them wherever they occur. Liberals must watch for concentrations of economic as well as political power. An analysis of "A Positive Program for Laissez Faire" by Henry Simons shows this insight's power in liberal political…

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The man whose Russian Jewish ancestors fled persecution now oversees a sweeping deportation machine designed to terrorize immigrant families

Listen to 092: Liberalism's Common Ground (w/ Matt Zwolinski and Matthew McManus) from ReImagining Liberty wherever you get your podcasts!

Follow Us on  Facebook  and  Bluesky Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi’s recent book, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries and the Strug...

In 2022, the Pew Research Center published a report that caught many conservatives and classical liberals by surprise. Socialism, the report revealed, is

Book Review of: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress–and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman,1; and Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.2 Vera Coking and the Cost of Progress In 1961, V...

Fairly or not, neo-liberalism (and its cousin new public management) ended up being associated with monopolistic privatization, the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession, Austerity, and Pinochet.

Blogger Noah Smith’s praise for libertarianism comes at an odd time but offers an opportunity to clarify the side that has contributed to human freedom and flourishing

A new history of libertarianism challenges the conventional understanding of the tradition by spotlighting its radical currents. Unfortunately, there’s barely a remnant of that history today — most li...