His 1980 presidential campaign put the Libertarian Party on the map in a year rich in libertarian cultural clout.

"Classical liberal" thought is more closely connected with the great liberal thinkers of the Enlightenment and the 19th century (John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, etc.), while libertarians ...

Libertarians and conservatives, to be sure, can point to many examples of naive liberals in the last century who embarrassed themselves by praising this or that squalid, tyrannical communist ...

The Paranoid Libertarian and His Enemy, the Angry Liberal Two characters the government can’t afford to ignore, however irrational they are. By Eric Posner. Feb 14, 2014 10:37 AM.

I used to be a Kennedy-style “liberal.” Then I wised up. Now I’m a libertarian. But what does that mean? When I asked people on the street, half had no clue. We know that conserva… ...

Liberals thought they were strong enough to go it alone and get what they want, while libertarians still feared the left enough to convince themselves that the populist right remained their friend.

But libertarianism and liberalism on social issues are not the same thing. Your typical liberal Democrat says she’s liberal on social issues but that doesn’t make her in any meaningful way a ...

Why I fled libertarianism — and became a liberal I was a Ron Paul delegate back in 2008 -- now I'm a Democrat. Here's my personal tale of disgust and self-discovery ...

LIBERAL-LIBERTARIAN cage fights can be fun, but Sean Wilentz's scattershot attack on Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange in this month's New Republic is pretty thin stuff ...

This week another Reason/Rupe poll came out, this one on the political leanings of my generation, the Millennials.

Maybe he does identify as libertarian, but let’s be clear, he governs as a Boulder liberal. Gov. Polis has presided over the greatest lurch to the progressive left our state has ever witnessed.