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Balaji Srinivasan: How To Build Your Own Country in the Cloud
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
Balaji Srinivasan: How To Build Your Own Country in the Cloud
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
Renegade District Attorneys Who Defy State Mandates Are Often Freedom's Last Line of Defense
Perhaps, as we relearn the virtues of local decision-making, we'll also reacquire a taste for individualism.
Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism
The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.
Maria Montessori's 'Libertarian View of Children'
The education pioneer’s authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children’s independence.
How Individualism Promotes Generosity
A new study shows that, far from increasing selfishness, individualistic societies feature higher levels of altruism.
More Individualism Means More Altruism
"There may be no inherent conflict between doing well and doing good".
Rock Legend Frank Zappa Battles Censorship, Communism, and Conformity in a New Documentary
Alex Winter's new film celebrates the Rock Hall of Famer's individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and entrepreneurship.
Scott Barry Kaufman on Narcissists and Libertarians
The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.
Time May Not Exist Anymore, but Tenet Does, and It's in Theaters Now
Don't try to solve this time-puzzle of a movie. Just feel it.
Pandemics Don't Kill Compassion. Actually, They Bring It Out.
The coronavirus is narrowing class divisions and creating an amazing outbreak of compassion.
Understanding Ellison
In a new collection of letters, the great Invisible Man author is further revealed.
Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Praise Homeschooling
"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled."
The Broader Meaning of the Trad-Cons' New War on Porn
They probably won't succeed in criminalizing Pornhub, but manifesto-wielding conservatives are trying to reshape the GOP into a movement against individualism.
White Supremacy Is Alien to Liberal and Libertarian Ideals
People are important as individuals, not as extensions of some faceless mass.
The New Conservative Nationalism Is About Subverting Individual Liberty
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
The Unfulfilled Promise of Tiananmen Square
The heroism of the still-unidentified "Tank Man" helped destroy authoritarian rule in so many countries, but not his own.
Civil Liberties and Socialism Don't Mix
Democratic socialists say they believe in civil liberties, but their ideology is and will always be hostile to individual freedom.
John McCain, the Senate's Most Influential Hawk, Is Dead
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
Tom Wolfe Is Dead but the 'Me Decade' Lives On (and That's a Good Thing)
The world didn't just lose a transformative prose stylist. We lost our guide who still explains the contemporary world.
Stossel: Jordan Peterson on Finding Meaning in Responsibility
Lessons from Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life
Assassin's Creed: Games with a Libertarian View of the World
A look into the philosophy of Ubisoft's long-running franchise.
'The State Has Been One of the Largest Perpetrators of Gender Inequality and Violence': Podcast
Meet Feminists for Liberty's Kat Murti, who wants to make libertarianism the default setting for women, people of color, and Millennials.
Individualism Increasing Across the World
The richer people become, the more eagerly they throw off the shackles of collectivism.
Celebrating Individual Rights on Independence Day
At the country's founding, there were no walls to stop people from coming ashore and few rules to stop anyone from trying out new ideas.
King Dork Speaks! Frank Portman on High School, Individualism, and the War on Free Speech
Sorry kids, life "doesn't get better" after high school, says best-selling novelist. You just get better at navigating it.
This Is Your Last Weekend to See the National Gallery's Power and Pathos Exhibition
What ancient art says about 21st-century America.
David Bowie Was an Emissary From Our Own Hyper-Personalized Future
His insistent, playful shape-shifting helped to create a freer, more individualized world.
Greek Bronzes and the Rise of Artistic Realism: Power and Pathos Exhibition
What rare Hellenistic statues tell us about the ancient world and 21st-century America.
Premarital Sex Is 'Not Wrong at All,' Say 58 Percent of Americans
On the other hand, fewer approve of extramarital sex.
Libertarianism Is Still About More Than Rejecting Aggression
Libertarian has a historical and philosophical association with ethical and political individualism
2013: The Year Defiance of the State Became Cool
The year saw many Americans rally behind rebels, explicitly siding with them over the government, in opposition to the powers-that-be.
Leave Room For the Mountain Men
There needs to be room for people who would seek, without hurting others, to exit a life that doesn't appeal to them.
The Self-Fulfilling Polity
If self-actualization is right for individuals, what is right for the state? An excerpt from a new book by the author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem