American Libertarians & Individualists

[Created: 29 Jan. 2017]
[Updated: January 31, 2023 ]
David Boaz, "The Roots of Libertarianism" (1997)
Source: Libertarianism: A Primer, ed. David Boaz (New York: The Free Press, 1997), Chapter Two "The Roots of Libertarianism," pp. 27-58.
Leonard P. Liggio (1933-2014): A Collection of his Writings
LPL: A Collection of his Writings (a work in progress)
Lysander Spooner, “Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty” (1875)

[Lysander Spooner], “Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, in Dio Lewis, Prohibition a Failure: The True Solution of the Temperance Question (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875), pp. 107-46. Whole book [PDF MB]. Spooner's chapter [PDF MB]. HTML version at OLL.

A Foreword by Rose Wilder Lane to Social Fallacies (Economic Sophisms) by Frederic Bastiat (1944)
Source: Foreword to Social Fallacies (Economic Sophisms) by Frederic Bastiat. Translated from the Fifth Edition of the French by Patrick James Stirling, L.L.D., F.R.S.E. with A Foreword by Rose Wilder Lane (Published by Register Publishing Co., Santa Ana. Calif. 1944).
Murray N. Rothbard, Selected Writings

Here a few of his papers:

  • Toward a Strategy for Libertarian Social Change (April, 1977) [PDF 6.9MB]
  • “Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals in Social Change toward Laissez Faire,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. IX, no. 2, (Fall 1990), pp. 43-67. [PDF 1.3MB]
  • Chap. 30 “Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty,” in The Ethics of Liberty. With a New Introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (New York: New York University Press, 1998), pp. 257-73. [PDF 438KB]