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The Welfare Paradox: How States Expand Welfare While Deepening Inequality

by Manuel A. Alvarez August 31, 2025

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do? Get Married

The Slippery Slope Axiom

Grassroots Genius: The Unleashed Power That Can Green Africa

Dexter Resurrection: the Dark Passenger becomes a YIMBY Avenger

On the State of Mourning: Anti-Statism and Anti-Zionism

How Surveillance Erodes the Foundations of Liberty

The Youth That Doesn’t Ask for Permission

by Nathaly Paternina Sierra August 14, 2025

About the War…

The Mystique of Liberty

Mental Health Needs More Than Therapy, It Needs Liberty

Want Women to Be Free? Start with a Livelihood, Not a Lecture

Debate: Should Libertarians Support Euthanasia and the Right to Die?

Purge in the ranks of the Polish Paleolibertarian Youth Party

Politics

The Slippery Slope Axiom

by Harrison Griffiths August 28, 2025

Grassroots Genius: The Unleashed Power That Can Green Africa

by Trésor Daniel Mefire August 21, 2025

Debate: Should Libertarians Support Euthanasia and the Right to Die?

by Paritosh Purohit August 10, 2025

Purge in the ranks of the Polish Paleolibertarian Youth Party

by Ian Golan August 10, 2025

Economics

The Welfare Paradox: How States Expand Welfare While Deepening Inequality

by Manuel A. Alvarez August 31, 2025

Barbells and Free Markets: The Spontaneous Order of Fitness

by Mario Spoltore August 7, 2025

A Government Subsidy Walked into a Bar… And Other Bad Ideas We Still Fund

by Blanche Wadzanai Mhonda August 6, 2025

Simon’s Paradox: Johan Norberg tells us how we can be optimists even at times of great difficulty

by Johan Norberg August 5, 2025

Culture

Dexter Resurrection: the Dark Passenger becomes a YIMBY Avenger

by Ian Golan August 16, 2025
by Ian Golan August 16, 2025

On the State of Mourning: Anti-Statism and Anti-Zionism

by Nicolas S. Straehl August 15, 2025
by Nicolas S. Straehl August 15, 2025

Language as Spontaneous Order: The Case of Macedonian Language

by Nikola Lj. Ilievski July 28, 2025
by Nikola Lj. Ilievski July 28, 2025

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

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

EU Elections

Purge in the ranks of the Polish Paleolibertarian Youth Party

by Ian Golan August 10, 2025
by Ian Golan August 10, 2025

Pump for Change: Serbian Protests Against Kakistocratic Rule

by Nikola Lj. Ilievski July 14, 2025
by Nikola Lj. Ilievski July 14, 2025

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

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

    by Michael Huemer June 19, 2025
    June 19, 2025

    This article is part of our special print debate issue. Below, you’ll find the case in favor of the resolution, followed …

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

    by Mario Spoltore June 13, 2025
    June 13, 2025

    Is it possible to reconcile the world of medicine with the principles of classical liberalism? Many consider the two realms entirely …

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  • Society

    No Democracy Without Education: Make Politics and Economics Mandatory

    by Victor Silva Do Prado June 12, 2025
    June 12, 2025

    Democracy isn’t inherited, it’s taught. And right now, we’re failing to teach it. As a student in Canada, I see it …

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    Missouri’s Reversal of Voter-Approved Abortion Rights is an Assault on Democracy

    by Evan Kemp June 11, 2025
    June 11, 2025

    In any functioning democracy, the people have the final say. That’s the deal. We vote, and our decisions, whether popular or …

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  • Philosophy

    Thinking with Ayn Rand (and Trying Not to Lose My Mind)

    by José Alejandro Iturralde Camacho June 6, 2025
    June 6, 2025

    I was in an Uber, rereading Philosophy: Who Needs It—because nothing pairs better with morning traffic than unyielding metaphysics. Rand’s words, …

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

    by Makar Zarubin June 6, 2025
    June 6, 2025

    In a nameless future where the past is buried and banned, a City rises, surrounded by the wild whispers of the …

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    SpeakFreely Debate Issue Now in Print!

    by John Devlin June 5, 2025
    June 5, 2025

    You can now order your copy of the sixth issue of our magazine, dedicated to thought-provoking debates. Soapboxes and Civil Discourse …

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  • Economics

    Is Capitalism “Socialist” in Itself?

    by Guglielmo Salomone June 4, 2025
    June 4, 2025

    If this article has caught your attention, you might be concerned about the author’s mental health – and you would not …

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  • Society

    Why the Canadian Education System Is Doomed to Fail

    by Victor Silva Do Prado June 4, 2025
    June 4, 2025

    As a Grade 12 student in Manitoba, I’ve seen firsthand the reality of Canada’s education system—and it is worrying. Relative to …

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  • PoliticsSociety

    Poland Abandons the Enlightenment, Grabs a Torch

    by Ian Golan June 3, 2025
    June 3, 2025

    Poland is now fully on track for a far-right takeover A pimp, a football hooligan, and a mafia-world boxer who preys …

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  • Culture

    Love is Dystopia: An exploration of 1984 and Anthem

    by Josh Cheshire May 27, 2025
    May 27, 2025

    Whilst riding a train down to London to attend an event hosted by and for lovers of liberty, I found myself …

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  • Economics

    Christopher Snowdon: the Hidden Costs of Bottle Return Schemes and the War on Convenience

    by Ian Golan May 26, 2025
    May 26, 2025

    Interview with Christopher Snowdon SpeakFreely: I’m here today with Dr. Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. …

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    Zoltan Istvan: “Transhumanism presents the most ideal manifestation of what it can mean to be a human being”

    by Ian Golan May 19, 2025
    May 19, 2025

    Zoltan Istvan is the founder of the Transhumanist Party, the author of the “Transhumanist Bill of Rights”, and a frequently interviewed …

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  • PhilosophyPoliticsSociety

    Debate: Should Libertarians be Christians?

    by Ian Golan May 18, 2025
    May 18, 2025

    This article is part of our special print debate issue. Below, you’ll find the case in favor of the resolution, followed …

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