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Could Market Welfare Replace Animal Rights?

by Nicolás Sánchez July 8, 2025

Freedom’s Coming Home: SFL UK Looks to the Future of Liberty

How Hard We Fight the State Will Determine Whether We Can Live...

The Ethics of Scarcity: Why Voluntary Plasma Systems Are Failing

No, Meta Training Its AI on Your Posts Doesn’t Justify More Red...

Georgian Democratic Dream in Peril

The New American Protectionism and Its Global Repercussions

Who’s Really Paying for “Free” Healthcare in Italy?

by Mario Spoltore June 26, 2025

Is Miserable Army Pay a Hidden Tax on Nationalism?

Debate: Should Libertarians Ever Bother to Vote?

The Imminent Threat to Freedom of Expression in Brazil

Debate: Should The Non-Aggression Principle Apply to Animals?

In Defense of the Heretic: Szasz, Psychiatry, and the Right to Be...

No Democracy Without Education: Make Politics and Economics Mandatory

Politics

No, Meta Training Its AI on Your Posts Doesn’t Justify More Red Tape

by Lika Kobeshavidze June 27, 2025

Georgian Democratic Dream in Peril

by Tamara Obgaidze June 27, 2025

Is Miserable Army Pay a Hidden Tax on Nationalism?

by Ian Golan June 22, 2025

Poland Abandons the Enlightenment, Grabs a Torch

by Ian Golan June 3, 2025

Economics

The New American Protectionism and Its Global Repercussions

by Lucas Guimarães June 26, 2025

Who’s Really Paying for “Free” Healthcare in Italy?

by Mario Spoltore June 26, 2025

Is Miserable Army Pay a Hidden Tax on Nationalism?

by Ian Golan June 22, 2025

SpeakFreely Debate Issue Now in Print!

by John Devlin June 5, 2025

Culture

Debate: Should The Non-Aggression Principle Apply to Animals?

by Michael Huemer June 19, 2025
by Michael Huemer June 19, 2025

In Defense of the Heretic: Szasz, Psychiatry, and the Right to Be Free

by Mario Spoltore June 13, 2025
by Mario Spoltore June 13, 2025

Everything CAN Be Awesome, Said Ayn Rand: The Shared Message of The LEGO Movie and Anthem

by Makar Zarubin June 6, 2025
by Makar Zarubin June 6, 2025

Love is Dystopia: An exploration of 1984 and Anthem

by Josh Cheshire May 27, 2025
by Josh Cheshire May 27, 2025

EU Elections

No, Meta Training Its AI on Your Posts Doesn’t Justify More Red Tape

by Lika Kobeshavidze June 27, 2025
by Lika Kobeshavidze June 27, 2025

The Tale of Two Polish Millionaires Seeking to Spearhead a Deregulation Revolution

by Ian Golan March 7, 2025
by Ian Golan March 7, 2025

Austrian Election gives boon to the populists but what about principles?

by Nik Khosravipour November 6, 2024
by Nik Khosravipour November 6, 2024

17th International Vernon Smith Prize 2024

by Sponsored Article September 17, 2024
by Sponsored Article September 17, 2024

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  • Politics

    Embracing the Green Rush

    by Richard Mason October 26, 2018
    October 26, 2018

    The UK is flirting with the idea of a more liberal approach to medical marijuana. Italians can enjoy 0.2% THC ‘Cannabis …

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  • AlbaniaPoliticsSweden

    How a Free Press Dies

    by Viktorya Muradyan October 24, 2018
    October 24, 2018

    In his last column entitled ”What the Arab world needs most is free expression”, written for the Washington Post before his …

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  • EuropePoliticsSweden

    The Idiot’s Guide To The EU Elections

    by Bill Wirtz October 22, 2018
    October 22, 2018

    Next May, voters in the European Union member states will vote for a new European Parliament. What sounds like local politics …

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  • Technology

    No, We Shouldn’t Nationalize Facebook

    by Kai Weiss October 19, 2018
    October 19, 2018

    When Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK’s Labour Party, recently proposed that the British government should introduce its own social …

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  • ConscriptionPolitics

    Instead of Forcing Patriotism, Montenegro Should Promote Freedom of Expression

    by Ana Vukcevic October 17, 2018
    October 17, 2018

    Last week, the government of Montenegro passed a draft law – that is, it only needs final approval by parliament – …

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  • Society

    Identity Politics: Progressive or Patronising?

    by Sam Angell October 16, 2018
    October 16, 2018

    In the run-up to the 2017 general election, the Labour Party released a poster reading “Only Labour can be trusted to …

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  • Politics

    Has the Trump Effect Reached Brazil?

    by Viktorya Muradyan October 9, 2018
    October 9, 2018

    Brazilian politics. Why on Earth would anyone be interested in the Brazilian politics, when we have so much chaos going on …

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  • Politics

    Britain has only 5 ways out from Brexit’s labyrinth

    by Jorge Carrasco October 6, 2018
    October 6, 2018

    With less than 200 days remaining until the UK’s departure from the European Union, initially scheduled for March 29th of 2019, …

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  • EconomicsSwitzerland

    Why It’s Time to End Government-Funded Media

    by Bill Wirtz October 4, 2018
    October 4, 2018

    In the effort of maintaining “quality journalism,” publishers and journalists around the world make the case for press subsidies. In Europe, …

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  • Economics

    How One African Nation is Pulling Itself Out of Poverty

    by Luis Pablo de la Horra October 2, 2018
    October 2, 2018

    When discussing the dramatic increase in living standards of the last decades, we usually forget to mention that this increase hasn’t …

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  • Politics

    The dishonesty of the ‘Yes’ campaign for the upcoming Macedonian referendum

    by Simon Sarevski September 29, 2018
    September 29, 2018

    Since our independence back in 1991 the ‘name dispute’ has been looming over our heads. Should the upcoming referendum this Sunday …

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  • Economics

    Trump insists on increasing tariffs, but world markets are ignoring its trade war

    by Jorge Carrasco September 26, 2018
    September 26, 2018

    World markets have been waiting months for the commercial confrontation between the United States and China. Yet, while the trade war …

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  • Europe

    ESFL Top 100: A Family Reunion

    by Russell Coates September 22, 2018
    September 22, 2018

    It was a great honour to be invited to this year’s European Students for Liberty Top 100 in Gummersbach. The  annual …

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  • PoliticsSpain

    30 Years after Bruges: Margaret Thatcher’s Vision for Europe Revisited

    by Kai Weiss September 20, 2018
    September 20, 2018

    Europe is today in the midst of a debate on the future of the European Union. It is not the first …

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