Two groups of people call themselves libertarians. They oppose the same wars, want the same drug laws repealed, defend the same speech, distrust the same police powers, and start from the same moral premise: that every person belongs to themselves […]
Ask why libertarianism is so widely disliked and the answers come back remarkably consistent. [One recent survey of the criticism](https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/why-is-libertarianism-hated-c21590) sorts them into a few bins: the philosophy is said to put individual rights above any collective claim, to favor […]
In September 2021, Gavin Newsom signed two bills that did something California zoning law had not done in the better part of a century: they told a single-family homeowner that the city could no longer stop them from adding a second unit, or a third, or a fourth, to their own lot […]
Every institution we deal with — our job, our lease, our culture, our education and training, our government -- has social implications and importance
Alongside the essays here, we keep a smaller side project: a set of self-contained slide decks that walk through three arguments in more depth than a blog post usually allows — game theory, political philosophy, and a critical look at libertarianism itself.
We recently sketched out three competing shapes a California libertarian platform could take: the current LPCA line, an idealized “maximal liberty” platform, and a geoist alternative built around Henry George’s economics.
Current Libertarian Platform*: The Libertarian Party of California (LPCA) in 2025 bases its platform on core libertarian principles of individual liberty, limited government, and free markets, as outlined in various sources from the Libertarian Party and its California affiliate. Below is a description of a relevant Libertarian Party platform tailored to California, reflecting its current […]
Introduction This series of articles on libertarian approaches to mid-level state political office that attempts to answer the question: do libertarians know how to actually govern? We are seeing an upsurge in the interest of influencing local elections…municipal councils, county supervisors, school boards, assessors, state senate and assembly, water districts. A libertarian approach to […]
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