Farron explores the complexities and contradictions in the work of Ayn Rand, prompting a reassessment of how we square her stated “Sense of Life” with her fiction.

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.

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 ...

Washington’s letter is an important expression of the early American republic’s commitment to freedom of religion.

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.

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 ...

The industrial revolution, a term under dispute but hard to avoid, refers to the economic transformation that began in northwestern Europe in the 18th century, accelerated in the 19th century, and ...

The market doesn’t care one bit about your feelings. By the same token, it doesn’t care about your political beliefs. It doesn’t care about your favorite baseball team either, except that it will be ...

Nicholas Mosvick joins us to discuss the complexity of Fernando Wood, the mayor of New York who wished the state seceded during the Civil War.

Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.