https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_libertarianism
Reconciliation of individual rights and the advances of a free market economy with environmental degradation is a problem that few right-libertarians have addressed. ... right-libertarian Warren Redlich argues that the United States "was extremely libertarian from the founding until 1860, and still very libertarian until roughly 1930".

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
This paradigm of left-libertarianism 1 is distinguished from a right-libertarianism 1, that, whilst radical in a sense of being strongly demanding upon the status quo, regards fewer aspects of the status quo as a normative problem. Right-libertarianism 1 takes the structure of actually-existing capitalism to be a closer proxy of what a free

https://gisme.georgetown.edu/publications/libertarianism-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
Libertarians believe that the rich always capture political power; they want to minimize the power available to them in order to protect the weak. Brennan argues that libertarians are, in fact, animated by benevolence and a deep concern for the poor. Clear, concise, and incisively written, this volume explains a vitally important philosophy in

https://plato.stanford.edu/archivES/FALL2017/Entries/libertarianism/
Libertarianism. First published Thu Sep 5, 2002; substantive revision Tue Jul 1, 2014. In the most general sense, libertarianism is a political philosophy that affirms the rights of individuals to liberty, to acquire, keep, and exchange their holdings, and considers the protection of individual rights the primary role for the state.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/libertarianism-politics/Libertarian-philosophy
Libertarianism - Individualism, Free Markets, Limited Government: Classical liberalism rests on a presumption of liberty—that is, on the presumption that the exercise of liberty does not require justification but that all restraints on liberty do. Libertarians have attempted to define the proper extent of individual liberty in terms of the notion of property in one's person, or self

https://iep.utm.edu/libertar/
Problems such as these must, of course, be resolved by any political theory—not just libertarians. The problem is that the concept of self-ownership seems to offer little, if any, help in doing so. ... Fried's criticisms, however, apply to many natural-rights approaches to right-libertarianism as well. See also the response piece by

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2018.1479819
In addition to Nozick, statements of right-libertarianism include Mack (Citation 2002), Feser (Citation 2005), ... Although this purports to be a problem for the libertarian, there is one highly creative way in which the libertarian may consistently accept such a conclusion. The case of slavery is unique because the aim of slavery is to reduce

https://plato.stanford.edu/ARCHIVES/WIN2009/entries/libertarianism/
Radical right libertarianism— advocated, for example, by Rothbard (1978, 1982), Narveson (1988, ch. 7; 1999), and Feser (2005) ... The epistemic problem confronting libertarianism is similar to that confronting utilitarianism and other consequentialist theories. Consequentialist theories require knowledge of the entire future that will result

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/the-individualists-radicals-reactionaries-and-the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-libertarianism-book-review-matt-zwolinski-john-tomasi
May 29, 2023. Late-twentieth-century libertarianism didn't just reshape the right; it reshaped mainstream liberalism, too. Illustration by Adam Maida. In 2001, the libertarian anti-tax activist

https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/libertarianism/v-1/sections/problems-and-criticisms
4. Problems and criticisms. Libertarians have found themselves struggling with two major problems. First, how can the state be justified? If we cannot show that everyone consents to the state, its existence seems an illegitimate interference with individual liberty. Furthermore, if people make different levels of contribution to the upkeep of

https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/rawlsian-case-libertarianism
John Rawls (1921-2001) was arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. His systematic works, A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, set the stage for myriad debates within political philosophy. 1 The books also staked out a form of liberal egalitarianism. Although Rawlsians and libertarians agree on the basic

https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/libertarianism-without-inequality/
In this important contribution to rights theory, the deontology of punishment, and the problem of political obligation, Michael Otsuka argues against the belief, prevalent on both the left and the right of the political spectrum, that the fundamental principles of libertarianism conflict with the ideal of economic equality.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-fair-society/201108/what-s-the-matter-libertarianism
A line from libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick's path-breaking book, Anarchy, State and Utopia, says it all: "Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group [or state] may do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
People described as being left-libertarian or right-libertarian generally tend to call themselves simply libertarians and refer to their philosophy as libertarianism. As a result, some political scientists and writers classify the forms of libertarianism into two or more groups [6] [7] to distinguish libertarian views on the nature of property

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism
Right-libertarianism, also known as libertarian capitalism, or right-wing libertarianism, is a libertarian political philosophy that supports capitalist property rights and defends market distribution of natural resources and private property.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11158-021-09514-3
One could see this as posing a problem for libertarianism in relation to climate change, since, as argued by Dan C. Shahar (2009, p. 234), ' ... Considered as a necessary condition, it is inconsistent with the libertarian control-right—in particular the claim-right that others not use one's property without permission. To see this

https://www.libertarianism.org/what-is-a-libertarian
A libertarian is committed to the principle that liberty is the most important political value. Liberty means being free to make your own choices about your own life, that what you do with your body and your property ought to be up to you. Other people must not forcibly interfere with your liberty, and you must not forcibly interfere with theirs.

https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/individual-rights
Indeed, libertarian doctrines of individual rights are often cast in terms of a fundamental right of self- ownership. However, libertarian theories of individual rights also affirm individual rights to extrapersonal objects (e.g., to acorns, tractors, and software). Individual property rights radically expand the domains in which individuals

https://www.hoover.org/research/libertarian-education-reform-law-and-problem-positive-rights
The Libertarian: Education Reform, The Law, And The Problem With Positive Rights. A Michigan case prescribes the wrong remedy for failing schools. Wednesday, April 29, ... examines a recent case about Detroit's struggling schools in which the Sixth Circuit ruled that students have a 'right' to a certain minimal standard of education

https://reason.com/2024/06/25/how-the-libertarian-party-lost-its-way/
The Libertarian Party's biennial national convention in Washington, D.C., last month was a snapshot of a minor political party in the midst of a major identity crisis. Presumptive Republican

https://plato.stanford.edu/archIves/sum2020/entries/libertarianism/
Libertarianism. First published Thu Sep 5, 2002; substantive revision Mon Jan 28, 2019. Libertarianism is a family of views in political philosophy. Libertarians strongly value individual freedom and see this as justifying strong protections for individual freedom. Thus, libertarians insist that justice poses stringent limits to coercion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/opinion/activists-congress-laws-politics.html
Ms. Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and the host of the legal podcast "Advisory Opinions." Here's the ugly truth: The highest priority for members of Congress is not to legislate

https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-june-2024-debate-trump-biden-1918584
Hosted by Emmy-winning journalist John Stossel, a well-known libertarian, the event afforded Kennedy the chance to address the issues raised in the debate while largely escaping criticisms heaped

https://reason.com/2024/06/26/i-dont-support-mandates-from-government-john-stossel-interviews-libertarian-presidential-nominee-chase-oliver/
Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party Convention, asking delegates to vote for him, promising, "I will put a libertarian in my Cabinet!". But Libertarians nominated Chase

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/voters-ditch-biden-trump-rfk-jr-debate-politics-desk-rcna159107
Seven out of the 10 voters in the battleground state who participated, all of whom voted for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in 2020, are currently planning to back independent Robert F. Kennedy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/kennedy-biden-trump-debate.html
The event moderator was John Stossel, a libertarian and former host on ABC and Fox Business who now runs an online commentary platform. The event, billed as "The Real Debate," was livestreamed

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/06/29/ron-hart-im-with-hur-joe-biden-is-too-old-and-too-incompetent/
Trump is running on fixing the real problems that Biden has caused, the three Is: Immigration, Inflation and the Incompetence of the current administration. ... Ron Hart is a libertarian op-ed

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
In its biggest decision on homelessness in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along

https://www.libertarianism.org/media/liberty-chronicles/corporation-problem-gary-chartier
Later Libertarianism, because of some historical accidents associated with the Cold War, has tended to be identified with the right. But the classical liberal Libertarian tradition includes a whole lot of anti- status quo politics over many centuries, that certainly feels much more leftish to me.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-the-polls-miss-about-rfk-jr-and-third-party-candidates.html
2024 election polls on RFK Jr. and third-party candidates like Chase Oliver are missing a key point. Right now national and battleground-state polls assume every candidate is running everywhere.