There are some stories that make me yell out in frustration. Frustration at the lack of respect for the nature of a child. Frustration at growing militarization and criminalization of behavior. Frustration at the abuse of children and adolescents by the society who is supposed to protect them.

My own, [...]

Here is the updated version… and it still needs work. (Look at my original post for more info on the project.)

A Women’s Liberty Reader Essay Selections

Women’s Rights

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women, 1789 Mary Wollstonecraft,”The Subjugation of Women”,  A Vindication of the Rights [...]

As I was trying to find readings for a summer study group on women in liberty/individualist feminism I realized that (to the best of my internet research ability) no reader or even listing of the best libertarian works written by women has been compiled. So I thought I might try to access the vast local [...]

I ran across a piece of news-gossip about the iPad recently that I thought was interesting. The story is that Apple’s iPad iBooks store will carry the entire Gutenberg Project for free download.  {Story found here} For those of you who don’t know what Gutenberg Project it is a user-content-generated website that has [...]

Dear Readers,

I know we haven’t posted in a while, our apologies. We are considering a relaunch of the site and we appreciate your patience. We hope the new site will have social media aspects that allow for this conversation to continue in a more fluid way.

We are currently looking for co-writers on this [...]

A lot is being said about torture recently—but not enough. 

It is terrifying that so many are unconcerned about arrests without Habeas Corpus, military prisons, and torture. These activities don’t bring anyone more security.  In fact, they bring about a false sense of security while simultaneously making life more systematically dangerous for all.

Arrest without [...]

Today would have been the 110th birthday of F.A. Hayek.  He was one of the greatest minds of the past century.  This is what Steve Horwitz has to say over at The Austrian Economists

When future historians look back, they will recognize that the 20th Century was the “Century of Hayek” in terms [...]

About Education and Liberty

The goal of Education and Liberty is to explore the connections among Socratic inquiry, classical liberalism, Montessori pedagogy and Austrian economics.

We believe that there are two indispensable elements for unleashing the human potential.

The first element is the need to consistently practice the highest respect and love for all individuals [...]