Winner of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest’s Grand Prize
After a lot of excellent reading, Libertas Institute staff helped narrow down the top essays submitted as part our our essay contest. The contest’s theme—how to live free in an unfree world—sparked a variety of...
Winner of the First Annual Libertas Essay Contest’s People’s Choice Award
With 30 submissions in our first annual essay contest, three essays emerged as contenders for the People’s Choice Award—the $500 prize given to the author whose essay received the most Facebook “likes” by...
Two Sides of the Same Stick
Libertarianism has a media problem. Few reporters and pundits understand how to fit us into the paradigm they cling to, that of the false left/right spectrum in political philosophy. They look “left” and see...
An Alternative to Financing Public Works: A Case for Privatization
For the last five years the U.S. economy has been in the dumps. Yields on savings and CDs have plummeted. Corresponding borrowing rates have been attractive for households, and, apparently, states and municipalities as well....
Utah’s UTOPIA: Necessary Infrastructure or an Illegitimate Pseudo-Market?
A showdown in Orem earlier this week highlighted some of the (significant) problems faced by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, commonly known as UTOPIA. It also puts on open display the rampant violation of...
Reviving the “Principles of ’98”
Many people feel that there is no hope in standing up to a tyrannical federal government. This despair is understandable, but unproductive. We can find hope in the knowledge that many of the federal government’s creators...