“Liberty Matters” is devoted to the discussion of ideas pertaining to liberty. We have asked leading scholars and invited guest commentators to reflect upon how some of the authors whose works are part of the Online Library of Liberty have defended individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace over the past 300 years.

• About Liberty Matters
• Adam J. Macleod, “Bagehot and the Causes of Our Crises” [January 2020]
• Alan Kahan, “Limited Government, Unlimited Liberalism. Or, How Benjamin Constant was a Kantian After All” [May, 2018]
• Alberto Mingardi, “Liberty and Cynicism: Was Vilfredo Pareto a Liberal?” (November, 2018)
• Aurelian Craiutu, “Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited” (May 2014)
• Aurelian Craiutu, “How to Combat Fanaticism and the Spirit of Party: Germaine de Staël’s Lesson"
• Carlo Lottieri, “Exchanges, Claims, and Powers: About Bruno Leoni’s Social Theory” (September, 2019)
• Daniel B. Klein, “Smith, Hume, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives” (March 2020)
• David M. Hart, “On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas” (March 2015)
• David M. Hart, “Reassessing Bastiat’s Economic Harmonies after 160 Years” (May, 2019)
• David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016)
• David Womersley, “John Trenchard and the Opposition to Standing Armies” (September, 2016)
• Donald J. Boudreaux, “Deirdre McCloskey and Economists’ Ideas about Ideas” (July, 2014)
• Eric Mack on “John Locke on Property” (January 2013)
• Fernando R. Tesón, “Hugo Grotius on War and the State” (March 2014)
• Geoffrey Brennan, “James Buchanan: An Assessment” (March, 2013)
• George H. Smith, “Herbert Spencer’s Sociology of the State” (November 2014)
• George H. Smith, “The System of Liberty” (September 2013)
• Hartmut Kliemt, “Anthony de Jasay and the Political Economy of the State” (Sept. 2015)
• Henry C. Clark, “How Radical Was the Political Thought of the Encyclopédie?” (March, 2018)
• Henry C. Clark, “Montesquieu on Liberty and Sumptuary Law” (Nov. 2015)
• Jacob T. Levy, “Rationalism, Pluralism, and the History of Liberal Ideas” (May, 2016)
• John Blundell, “Arthur Seldon and the Institute of Economic Affairs” (November, 2013)
• John E. Alvis, “The Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare’s Plays" (July 2016)
• Justin Champion, “Magna Carta after 800 Years: From liber homo to modern freedom.” [May, 2015]
• Knud Haakonssen, “Pufendorf on Power and Liberty” (January, 2017)
• Lawrence White, “Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit at 101” (January, 2014)
• Liberty Matters discussions listed by Subject Areas
• Matt Zwolinski, “William Graham Sumner – Liberty’s Forgotten Man” (July 2017)
• Matthew McCaffrey, “Frank Fetter and the Austrian Tradition in the United States” (January, 2019)
• Mikko Tolonen, “Mandeville, Hayek and Politics of Self-esteem” (October 2020)
• Nicholas Buccola, “Frederick Douglass on the Right and Duty to Resist” (May, 2017)
• Nicholas Capaldi, “The Place of Liberty in David Hume’s Project” (January, 2018)
• Peter Boettke, “Gordon Tullock and the Rational Choice Commitment” (November, 2017)
• Peter Boettke, “Hayek’s Epistemic Liberalism” (September, 2017)
• Peter J. Boettke, “Israel M. Kirzner on Competitive Behavior, Industrial Structure, and the Entrepreneurial Market Process” (March, 2017)
• Peter Lewin, “Ludwig Lachmann – Enigmatic and Controversial Austrian Economist” (July, 2018)
• Phillip W. Magness, “William Leggett: Free Trade, Hard Money, and Abolitionism” (July, 2019)
• Randy E. Barnett, “The Significance of Lysander Spooner” (Jan. 2016)
• Richard M. Ebeling, “Assessing Böhm-Bawerk’s Contribution to Economics after a Hundred Years” (April, 2015)
• Robert Leroux, “Bastiat and Political Economy” (July 1, 2013)
• Roderick Long, “Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty” (May, 2013)
• Ruth Scurr, “J.S. Mill & Life Writing” (August 2020)
• Sandra Peart, “James Mill on Liberty and Governance” (Sept. 2014)
• Sanford Ikeda,“The Misesian Paradox: Interventionism Is Not Sustainable” (March 2016)
• Sarah Morgan Smith, ““To Covenant and Combine Ourselves into a Civil Body Politic”: The Mayflower Compact @ 400 Years” (May 2020)
• Stephen Davies, “Richard Cobden: Ideas and Strategies in Organizing the Free-Trade Movement in  Britain” (January 2015)
• Stephen Davies, “The Levellers and the Emergence of (Some) Modern Political Ideas” (November 2019)
• Steven Kates, “Reassessing the Political Economy of John Stuart Mill” (July 2015)
• The Collected Liberty Matters: Nos. 1-10
• Virgil Storr, “Marx and the Morality of Capitalism” (October, 2018)

Last modified April 13, 2016