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A short book about economist Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of “creative destruction.”

A wide-​ranging introduction to the ideas of libertarianism.

Freedom’s Furies tells the story of the friendships between three remarkable American novelists—Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand—who strove to keep liberty alive in an age of darkness.

With personal stories, historical anecdotes, theological insights, and a very accessible prose, this is the little big book on the intersection of Islam and liberty.

Alex Nowrasteh makes compelling evidence-​based counter arguments to the most common objections to immigration.

The selections in this reader show that the liberal approach to the past is generally skeptical of laws of history and suggestions of historical determinism.

This book explains the Austrian School’s insights on a wide range of economic topics and introduces some of its key thinkers.

Noted scholars and advocates of liberty offer inspiring visions of a more libertarian world.

An inquiry into how we communicate issues and ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides. The third version of this book is available now!

In its dealings with the broader world, has the United States been a force for liberty?

Who makes history happen after all? Was our world built by and for the powerful few, and if so, what can the rest of us do about it?

Ever the hopeful (if naive) optimist, Walt Whitman foretells the limitless potential of a liberated humanity.

In the Reformation, Protestants repeatedly changed the world—including by arguing that kings were no longer sacred. To be of any use, they must serve the people.

A short primer on the life and thought of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

An anthology of writings on the eternal conflict between individual liberty and those who seek to control our lives.

This book is for someone who wants to learn how to interpret the results of statistical analyses.

This book discusses figures in history who claimed to have supernatural powers, and the political impacts of those claims.

Since at least the days of ancient Sparta, governments have sought to control the educational process.

Intellectual surveys of Hume, Smith, Hobbes, Butler, Mandeville, and Hutcheson and their respective contributions to political philosophy.

A short history of America’s founding.

A survey of the history of religious and intellectual liberty in Europe.

A short guide to economics and the market economy.

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system.

A concise reexamination of economics, which shows how the economy is an evolutionary system, with constantly changing patterns of specialization and trade.

A short introduction to the basic ideas and principles of political philosophy.

A collection of Childs’s essays on the moral philosophy and the role of the state—including his late-​in-​life repudiation of anarchy.

Features a wealth of essays from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. In 26 selections from 25 writers individualism is explained and defended.