Activism

Art

Authors/Books/Booksellers

Business/Economics

Business

Small Business Survival Committee

Up to date news plus vehicles for activism for owners of small businesses

The Microsoft Defense Site

"Like an increasing number of big businesses, Microsoft is being punished for being successful, for making products that people want to purchase. The trust-busting power-seekers of the federal and state governments — guided by false philosophic and economic ideas — are trampling on the rights of Microsoft and thus on every individual American’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Economics

The Capitalism Site (Capitalism.org)

"...[W]eb site for the moral social system: laissez-faire capitalism." One of the largest and most resource-filled of the sites in this list. Includes the beautiful and popular "Capitalism Tour," a multi-media presentation of the definition and significance of capitalism. Works of Rand frequently quoted. Updated often.

The Center For the Moral Defense of Capitalism

"dedicated to defending laissez-faire capitalism as the only moral social system."

Ludwig von Mises Institute

"is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics. ... The goal: to restore a high place for theory in the social sciences, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, to promote the free and enterprising commonwealth, and to undermine statism in all its forms."

Competitive Enterprise Institute

"a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free marketplace."

Center For Trade Policy Studies

Mission: "to increase public understanding of the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism."

Dead Economists Society

"dedicated to the appreciation of the extraordinary insights of classical liberal economics."

Fraser Institute

"founded in 1974 to redirect public attention to the role markets can play in providing for the economic and social well-being of Canadians."

Free the World

"committed to bringing economic freedom and growth to all the countries of the world. The Economic Freedom Network Index, which ranks 123 countries, is a joint venture involving fifty-five research institutes in fifty-five countries around the world." Valuable collection of online articles on economic freedom and its promotion.

Drugs

The Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCN)

"founded in 1993 and has quickly grown into a national network of more than 10,000 activists and concerned citizens including parents, educators, students, lawyers, health care professionals, academics, and others working for drug policy reform from a variety of perspectives, including harm reduction, reform of sentencing and forfeiture laws, medicalization of currently schedule I drugs, and promotion of an open debate on drug prohibition." See the critique of D.A.R.E.

Common Sense for Drug Policy

"organization dedicated to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating the voices of those raising questions about existing law and educating the public about alternatives to current policies...provide advice and technical assistance to individuals and organizations working to reform current policies."

The November Coalition

"We are a growing body of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's present drug policy. We are drug war prisoners, their loved ones and others who believe that our present course of war in America has a price that we cannot afford to pay."

Human Rights and the Drug War

"Dedicated to the Prisoners of the Drug War, to their families, and to all who work for their freedom and to restore respect for all Human Rights"

DrugSense: Drug Policy Reform

"DrugSense Means Education." "If you have reservations about the War on Drugs, explore DrugSense to become better informed and, if you are so moved, become active in making a positive change." Site includes the informative War On Drugs Clock

Education/Schools

The Separation of School & State Alliance

"Re-discovering the original American public education system - privately operated, open to the public. The 'Separation Alliance' is a grass-roots non-profit organization. Our mission is to inform Americans how education can be improved - especially for the poor - by ending government involve-ment in K-12 education." Lead quote on site: "I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer that to their being educated by the state." The Alliance has a large collection of literature which can be obtained inexpensively.

Cato University - Advancing Civil Society

Home Study courses and seminars

The Triplett School

A private K-12 school designed around the principle of reason.

Objective Education

"The purpose of this site is to provide resources on providing your child with an objective education. Such an education focuses on developing a child's conceptual faculty, so that by the time the child grows up to become an adult, it will have mastered the method to think-- and thus act--independently."

Gail Withrow's Homeschooling Site

Ms. Withrow, a highly successful homeschooler, has created a large, informative site. Clear presentation; valuable links.

Hillsdale College

"Hillsdale has traditionally upheld two concepts: academic excellence and institutional independence. The College does not solicit or accept federal monies for its operations. This has set it free to offer a unique kind of education. ... proudly adheres to the non-discriminatory policy regarding race, religion, sex and national or ethnic origin that it has maintained since 1844, long before governments found it necessary to regulate such matters."

George Mason University

"International academic reputation providing superior education enabling students to develop critical, analytical, and imaginative thinking and to make well-founded ethical decisions....encourage diversity in its student body"

Institute for Humane Studies: Scholarships, Fellowships, Internships

"... affiliated with George Mason University ... a unique organization that assists undergraduate and graduate students worldwide who have a special interest in individual liberty." See their on-line Liberty Videos.

Marva Collins Seminar Site

A brief site offering seminars and books by Marva Collins. Some biographical information.

Feminism

iFeminists.com

"With ifeminists.com, twenty-first century feminism has arrived. This site is an all-inclusive online center where people looking for a new way to approach feminism can gather online, learn, and access a wealth of information. ifeminists.com offers in-depth resources and portal-like tools for everyone: activists and scholars, experts and beginners, women and men....ifeminism is individualist feminism."

Wendy McElroy

"Site for Individualist Feminism, and Individualist Anarchism"

An Individualist Feminist Compendium

"devoted to making the works of early Individualist Feminists available for research and enjoyment."

Association of Libertarian Feminists

"The Purpose of ALF is to: encourage women to become economically self-sufficient and psychologically independent;publicize and promote realistic attitudes toward female competence, achievement, and potential; oppose the abridgement of individual rights by any government on account of sex; work toward changing sexist attitudes and behavior exhibited by individuals; provide a libertarian alternative to those aspects of the women’s movement that tend to discourage independence and individuality."

The Women's Freedom Network

"founded in early 1993 by a group of women who were seeking alternatives to extremist ideological feminism and the anti-feminist traditionalism. It believes in the full participation of women in every area of American life. It celebrates the achievements women have already made, and it views women's issues in light of a philosophy that defines women and men as individuals and not in terms of gender. It does not set different standards of excellence, morality, or justice for men and women."

Film

Miss Liberty's Film & TV World

"The purpose of this web site and associated newsletter is to promote viewship of libertarian film, video and TV." "includes weekly recommendations for TV viewing."

Apotheosis movie recommendations

A part of Quent Cordair's web site

A Sense of Life

Advertising/information site for the video & DVD of that name

Free Speech

Electronic Frontier Foundation

"a non-profit, non-partisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet ... founded in 1990"

Freedom of Expression Network (FEN)

"an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the First Amendment right of free expression and the values it represents, and to opposing governmental efforts to suppress constitutionally protected speech."

Health/Healthcare/Medicine

Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM)

Since 1993 "a national non-profit, non-partisan educational organization. ... promotes the philosophy of individual rights, personal responsibility and free market economics in the health care industry. ... advocates a full, free market health care system by promoting medical savings accounts (MSAs), tax equity for the individual, and AFCM teaches the history of HMOs, which were instituted by a long, incremental process of government intervention."

Institute For Health Freedom (IHF)

"when it comes to choosing health care, the individual's freedom has been limited by burdensome regulations. ...For example, have you ever wondered why you are not free to choose your own health-care providers and treatments, without needing to get pre-approval from an insurance company or running up against some burdensome regulation? And have you ever wondered why you can't buy your health insurance through a private association (other than your employer) and still deduct the cost of health insurance from your taxes? ...The Institute for Health Freedom was established to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the forefront of America's health policy debate. Our mission is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom."

Objectivist Issues in Medicine (OIM) - Email Forum

"a philosophical E-mail forum with the purpose of discussing health care related issues in an Objectivist context."

Internet

Internet Privacy Coalition

"The mission of the Internet Privacy Coalition is to promote privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography."

The e-Freedom Coalition

"The e-Freedom Coalition consists of taxpayer groups, think tanks, and other organizations working together to ensure that individual liberty and freedom are protected online."

NetCoalition - Privacy Campaign

"We encourage the U.S. government to support these principles of continued industry self-regulation and limited government intervention both domestically and in its negotiations with other governments over information policies in e-commerce"

Recreational Software Advisory Counsil on the Internet (RSACi)

A method for voluntary internet filtering without government censorship. "empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of an open, objective, content advisory system."

Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA)

"Internet users, online publishers, library and academic groups and free speech and journalistic organizations share a common interest in opposing the adoption of techniques and standards that could limit the vibrance and openness of the Internet as a communications medium. Indeed, content "filtering" techniques already have been implemented in ways inconsistent with free speech principles, impeding the ability of Internet users to publish and receive constitutionally protected expression"

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

"established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values."

Law

Institute for Justice

"Once people turned first to the ACLU whenever government violated their rights. No longer. As that group has fought in recent years to create a right to welfare, to preserve racial preferences, and to prop up the pillars of the welfare state, people have increasingly sought a principled alternative that will protect individual rights rather than expand government."

The Association for Objective Law (TAFOL)

"Objectivist principles form a stark contrast to the principles which underlie current legal theory. Today, pressure group demands and interests, dressed up as bogus "rights," are pitted against, and make deeper and deeper inroads into, real rights. ...Rights, in fact, are possessed only by individuals; they are inalienable. As a consequence of its support of the proper principles, TAFOL opposes the irrational laws arising from wrong principles. Proper laws simply protect rights. They are objective, i.e., they recognize the facts of reality giving rise to rights and accurately identify, clearly define, and protect those rights."

Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (F.E.A.R.) Foundation

"FEAR advocates criminal due process safeguards for all forfeitures, and enhanced protections for innocent owners and third parties. We seek an end to the practices of letting the seizing agencies benefit from the proceeds of property seized, and of letting federal agencies adopt state seizures."

Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA)

"a non-profit educational association whose mission is to inform all Americans about their rights, powers and responsibilties when serving as trial jurors. FIJA also seeks to restore the political function of the jury as the final check and balance on the American system of government."

The Liberty Project

"Established in 1997, the Liberty Project is at the forefront of a battle to preserve our civil rights. Federal statutes currently give law enforcement officials unprecedented enforcement powers. While created in a well meaning attempt to combat crime, overzealous individuals have misused these laws for both personal and institutional gain. The Liberty Project, along with its partners, is appealing to congressional legislatures to reform these statutes and restore our Constitutional rights."

The Law Enforcement Alliance of America

"the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of law enforcement professionals, crime victims, and concerned citizens united for justice. Together, we fight for legislation at every level of government that reduces violent crime while preserving the rights of all citizens, particularly the right of self-defense. LEAA strives to keep political debate focused on criminal behavior and criminal punishment, and to communicate the shared opinion of the majority of law enforcement that gun control is not effective crime control."

American Association of Small Property Owners

"AASPO is a national grassroots membership organization committed to restoring common sense to regulation and to respecting the rights of private property owners when achieving social goals. We believe that without property rights there can be no human rights."

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

"The Constitution mandates it. Most Americans believe in it. But today it is under threat as never before. "

Life & Death

Abortion

Pro
Abortion is Pro-Life

" 'An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn). Abortion is a moral right--which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered.' --Ayn Rand"

Con
Libertarians For Life

"Libertarians for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong under justice, not a right. Our reasoning is scientific and philosophical rather than pragmatic or religious. Politically, of course, our perspective is libertarian. Libertarianism's basic principle is that each of us has the obligation not to aggress against (violate the rights of) anyone else -- for any reason, personal, social, or political, however worthy." See also Libertarian Christians, below.

Right to die

Hemlock Society

"Whether you are looking for background and current interests in the right to die movement, written information on planning for a peaceful death, or general information about the Hemlock Society you should be able to find it here. Our interest is in maximizing the options for a peaceful death, including legal physician aid in dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults who request it, under careful safeguards."

Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO!)

"founded in 1993 to improve the quality of background research of assisted dying for persons who are terminally or hopelessly ill and wish to end their suffering. ERGO! holds that voluntary euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and self-deliverance, are all appropriate life endings depending on the individual medical and ethical circumstances."

Choice In Dying

"a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping patients and their families participate in decisions about end-of-life medical care. We provide a number of important tools, including legal documents known as advance directives and a counseling line 800-989-WILL (9455), to help ensure that individuals' end-of-life medical care reflects their own wishes."

DeathNET

"offers the world's largest collection of "right to die" materials and services on the Internet. It gathers together a wide array of information dealing with specific illnesses and severe disabilities--especially those of a life-threatening nature. It provides connecting links to medical libraries and other online services dealing with bereavement, caregiving, emotional support and counselling. DeathNET also provides expert advice on "living wills", palliative care, and all aspects of assisted suicide and euthanasia. There are more than 950 individual files on DeathNET (as of July 1996); and more than 200 links to other medical and health-related resources."

Compassion In Dying Federation

"provides national leadership for client service, legal advocacy and public education to improve pain and symptom management, increase patient empowerment and self-determination and expand end-of-life choices to include aid-in-dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. We work toward improved care and expanded options at life's end, with goals of comprehensive, effective comfort care for every dying person, and legal and humane aid-in-dying if suffering is unbearable and cannot be relieved. "

Magazines/E-zines

Reason Magazine/Reason Online

"Free minds and free markets" has been the magazine's slogan since its inception in 1968. News commentary, reviews, and public policy articles explore how problems can be attacked without resort to government intervention. Non-partisan.

Capitalism Magazine - In Defense of Individual Rights

E-zine published and edited by Mark Da Cunha. A little over a year old, but contains extensive material. Searchable online articles and topics. Strongly features Ayn Rand's ideas and works.

Capitalism.Net/ The Jefferson School

"The Jefferson School has been created to advance and disseminate the philosophical and scientific knowledge that is necessary to the existence of a free society." Offers books by George Reisman and several online essays.

Liberty Unbound Magazine

"the web site for Liberty magazine, the monthly libertarian (classical liberal, or individualist) review of thought, culture and politics."

Full Context

"an internationally-distributed newsletter that presents the politics, the principles, and the people behind the recent explosion of interest in Objectivist thought, and of the Renaissance of individualism surrounding it."

SpinTech: a monthly challenge to the prevailing culture

"dedicated to defending individual freedom in all spheres of life. We oppose the prevailing vision of culture and instead seek to promote liberty and rights through individualism and free markets. We seek a free society that allows individuals to live as they choose, and we support all parties which seek to build such a society."

Liberty Journal

"A monthly journal about freedom" plus links, chat, forum, news, and reviews

The Freeman Index

A large number of short articles on a wide variety of subjects; searchable

Liberty Unbound

"the web site for Liberty magazine, the monthly libertarian (classical liberal, or individualist) review of thought, culture and politics."

The Libertarian Enterprise

"an online publication dedicated to spreading genuine and unabashed libertarian opinions on the internet and elsewhere... we have no interest in converting anyone to anything. Our experience is that few individuals are qualified to be libertarians, that it requires more patience and genius than today's products of public education are capable of, and that anyone who must be persuaded to be free probably doesn't deserve to be."

News

About.com: Newsissues/Libertarian

About.com subject portal

Civil Liberties

Mining Company subject portal

Libertarian Party News Network

"your one stop source for news gathered from all reaches of the web"

Philosophy

General

Philosophy: the Integrating Science

general, but from an objectivist perspective - fledgeling site

Objectivism

The Ayn Rand Institute

"Since 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute has been the authoritative source for information about Ayn Rand." A large, well-developed site with many resources.

Reason On Campus - Writing Site for Students of Objectivism

"for college Objectivist students worldwide to post their published or unpublished non-fiction writing."

The Objectivist Center (formerly Institute for Objectivist Studies)

"Our Mission: To advance Objectivist ideas and ideals in our culture and society and to create an open community of people who share those ideals. We are crusaders for rational individualism, and a home for rational individualists."

The Intellectual Activist

"Are you worried by the current trends in American culture--the trends toward increasing state control in politics, toward depravity-worship in art, toward irrationality and racial balkanization in our universities? Are you looking for a rational alternative, one that will uphold the power of the human mind, the sovereignty of the individual, and man's right to pursue his own happiness? ... Then find out about The Intellectual Activist, a monthly magazine that examines current cultural and political events from an uncompromising pro-reason, pro-individualist perspective."

Objectivism Today

"Your Quality Guide to Objectivism on the World Wide Web" E-zine.

Chris Matthew Sciabarra

"Dr. Chris Matthew Sciabarra was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1960. He resides in the Bensonhurst-Gravesend section of the borough.  He is the author of the Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy that began with Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, continued with Ayn Rand:  The Russian Radical, and culminates with Total Freedom.  He is the coeditor with Mimi Reisel Gladstein of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, and also a coeditor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.  He has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics at New York University since January 1989."

Lyceum International

" offers a variety of conferences, workshops, and special events held in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Third Millennium Speakers Bureau (TMSB) is a division of Lyceum International. TMSB provides provocative speakers on a wide range of topics and is the exclusive source for the Profit is Moral Seminars."

Prodos World Wide

"flamboyant Melbourne radio personality, activist and street performer, PRODOS"

Libertarianism

Advocates for Self-Government

Well developed site with many resources. Home of the famous World's Smallest Political Quiz. "The job of the Advocates is to present the freedom philosophy to opinion leaders. We help them encounter, evaluate, and if appropriate, embrace the ideals of self-government. ...Most people don't read economics books. They get their ideas from journalists, teachers, talk-show hosts, clergy, celebrities, and respected friends, family and acquaintances. Our specialty is improving the skills and tools of people who believe in the freedom philosophy so that they can reach these opinion leaders. ...This focus makes us unique in the freedom movement. We are not a political organization, a lobbying group, or a think tank. We provide you with the tools and methods to win people to the side of liberty. Ask for our catalog."

The Future of Freedom Foundation

"an educational foundation that advances the libertarian philosophy by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government." Don't miss the White Rose article.

Libertarianism: A Primer

Information site about Libertarianism: A Primer, by David Boas. Includes extensive excerpts.

Individual Rights

Information site about A Life of One's Own, by David Kelley. Includes extensive excerpts.

Freedom's Nest

Small site with extensive quotes

Libertarian.Org

A small site introducing the libertarian view and explaining some of its applications.

International Society for Individual Liberty

" an association of individuals and organizations with members in over 80 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world, respect for individual rights and liberties, and an open and competitive economic system based on voluntary exchange and free trade." Libertarian position papers and international news commentary.

Libertarian Christian Web Pages

Whether Jesus was the "son of God," whether he was religious, whether he was reasonable, and whether we even have an accurate record of what he said have all been subject to widely -- even wildly -- varying opinion. Here is a collection of sites and articles attempting to apply his thought to issues of contemporary importance to rational people.

Libertarianism and Religion

"Examining the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers and the role of religion in a free society from a Libertarian perspective."

David D. Friedman

Author of The Machinery of Freedom, etc.

The Voluntaryist

"advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitmacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitmacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends."

The Freeman

Politics

The Libertarian Party

"America's third largest and fastest growing political party." "It is the only political organization which respects you as a unique and competent individual." "a logically consistent approach to politics based on the moral principle of self-ownership. Each individual has the right to control his or her own body, action, speech, and property. Government's only role is to help individuals defend themselves from force and fraud."

Harry Brown 2000 Organization

Presidential candidate Harry Brown's site. Includes interesting surveys visitors can take to compare their own views to those of contempory parties and politicians. Informative articles and links.

Project FREEDOM: Official Web Site of US Rep. Ron Paul

"for Americans everywhere who cherish the ideals of liberty, fiscal integrity and constitutional government."

Morality vs. Religion

"The threat to turn America into a semi-theocracy is no longer the exclusive province of the conservatives. The left wing, the “liberals,” have abandoned even a lip-service advocacy of reason. All the current presidential candidates are either kowtowing to religion or fervently supporting its role in politics."

Frontiers of Freedom

"dedicated to maintaining and restoring the American system of limited government and individual rights. ...regards the Constitution, not as Congress sees it-an impediment to more efficient government-but as the pole star of America's future. Frontiers seeks to lead the conservative movement from the front line of the battle against an ever more powerful and intrusive federal government."

Rexcurry.net

Attorney Rex Curry's site is dedicated to exposing socialist trends and practices in the United States. Of particular interest is the historical work he has done to expose the sordid history of the Pledge of Allegiance and its connection to the early NAZI movement.

Republican Liberty Caucus

"represents the Republican Party's libertarian tradition." Includes a rating list of the members of congress' voting records.

Democratic Freedom Caucus

"a progressive libertarian caucus in the Democratic Party. The purpose of the DFC is to promote individual liberty, limited government, and social responsibility."

Think The Vote

"A Rational Guide to the Elections."

Go Vote -- America's Political Portal

A wealth of election information, plus an extemely popular Presidential Selector Quiz

Ballot Access News

"a non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations of folks trying to put candidates on the ballot in the United States of America. There are many surprisingly restrictive ballot access laws in this country, which the average voter has no knowledge or conception of; part of our purpose here (besides reporting on progress made) is to report on these restrictive ballot access laws so that more people are aware of them."

Third Party Central

"The gateway to your ideal political reality ...Upsetting the political machine since February 1996."

The Liberty Coalition

An effort to unite the strength of America's five nationally organized Third Parties (Reform, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Natural Law)

Voters For None Of The Above

"A nonpartisan organization dedicated to enacting Voter Consent laws, giving voters the ballot option to reject all candidates for an office and to call for a new election with new candidates to fill that office"

Privacy

Defend Your Privacy

"In the face of overwhelming opposition from the American people, the FDIC withdrew its proposed Know Your Customer rule, which would have forced banks to 'monitor' customers' accounts, develop customer 'profiles' and report any 'unusual' transactions to federal investigators. However, Know Your Customer isn't dead yet."

Psychology

The Living Resources Center --Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.

"The Living Resources Center was founded on the premise that the best way to solve emotional problems is to develop methods of reality-oriented thinking.Reality-oriented thinking requires a commitment to understanding reality as it objectively is, and not merely how one wishes it to be. "

The Rational Basis of Happines -- Dr. Ellen Kenner

"the web site for The RATIONAL Basis of Happiness®, llc which provides the educational material, radio show, publications and psychological services"

Nathaniel Branden

"With a Ph.D. in psychology and a background in philosophy, Nathaniel Branden is a practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles, and, in addition, does corporate consulting and offers seminars, workshops, and conferences on the application of self-esteem principles and technology to the problems of modern business. ... The name Nathaniel Branden has become synonymous with 'the psychology of self-esteem,' a field he began pioneering over thirty years ago.  He has done more, perhaps, than any other theorist to awaken America's consciousness to the importance of self-esteem to human well-being. "

Radio

Shows/Sites

The Al Show: Ayn Rand's Ideas with Andrew Lewis

"penetrating analysis of today's news and culture."

The Neal Boortz Show

Political/social commentary; books; links

The Prodos Connection

Excerpts from the radio show. Objectivist

Larry Elder

Elder, a black individualist, asks "Are you concerned about the direction in which this country is going?   Our government gets bigger and bigger, and spends more and more of our money. This destroys the incentive of the hardworking, while creating a class of people dependent upon government, many of whom could become productive, contributing members of our society." 

Dr. Hurd

Broadcasts of "The living Resources Center ... Solutions, Not Excuses"

Follow Reason Radio Show

Web site for Dr. Ellen Kenner's radio show, publications, and psychological services.

Lists/Directories

Libertarians on the Air

"these broadcasters demonstrate they can rise above the pack, see beyond short-sighted "conventional wisdom" and (even the funny ones) take reason -- and liberty -- very seriously."

Rings

Rings are mutually linked sites in a common category. They are subjected to only casual scrutiny prior to acceptance, so site quality, and even relevance to category, vary widely.

Individualist Ring

Libertarian Ring

Liberty Activists Ring

Liberty Forum Association Ring

Objectivist Ring

Egoism Ring

Anarcho-capitalist Ring

Science/Environment

Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

"The Science & Environmental Policy Project was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer on the premise that sound, credible science must form the basis for health and environmental decisions that affect millions of people and cost tens of billions of dollars every year."

Reason Digest

"the journal to promote a rational foundation for the sciences"

National Center for Science Education, Inc. --NCSE

"a nonprofit, tax-exempt membership organization working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack."

The Nature Conservancy

"Founded in 1951, ... the world's leading private, International conservation group. We preserve habitats and species by saving the lands and waters they need to survive."

Self-Defense

Second Amendment theory and resources

Second Amendment Foundation Online

"dedicated to promoting a better understanding about our Constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, we carry on many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate."

Second Amendment Law Library

Law review articles and some popular-press articles

Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions

Compiled by Eugene Volokh

Eugene Volokh

Professor, UCLA School of Law, Reason Magazine contributor

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

"America's Most Aggressive Defender of Firearms Ownership."

Firearms quiz

An interesting and informative questionaire by Oleg Volk; see also another quiz provided by the KeepAndBearArms.Org

Personal Self-Defense

Arming Women Against Rape & Endangerment (AWARE)

"Effective self-protection for intelligent women who want help, not hype."

Refuse To Be A Victim™

"learn the personal safety tips and techniques you need to avoid dangerous situations, and avoid becoming a victim" A seminar sponsored by the NRA

Aikido

Definition and references

Mothers' Arms

"a non-profit organization created to inform, educate and support the development of self-reliant women nationwide who consider it a fundamental right and responsibility to protect their children, their property and themselves from human aggression and assault...Mothers Arms wants to keep our children safe through education and training in the human right of self protection."

Individual rights/gun issues

Oleg Volk

A photographer, who -- having grown up un the USSR -- is personally acquainted with the issue of personal self-defense and its conflict with state policy. This is a "pro-gun" site with a uniquely humane and beautiful vision. Elegant photographs and poignant commentary.

Gun Owners of America

"The only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington" - Ron Paul Legislative updates, action assistance.

The Right of Self-defense

Objectivist

National Rifle Association

Founded in 1871, the "premier firearms education organization in the world." Institute for Legislative Action, youth-oriented Eddie Eagle® Gun Safety Program and fund-raising through the NRA Foundation.

Reason Against Crime

Applications of reason to the problem of crime; objectivist.

Shopping

No Free Lunch Distributors

"Where you get what you pay for." Videos, books, etc; small but carefully chosens selection of interesting items not widely available.

Liber-Tees

"Quality t-shirts with a pro-liberty theme"

A.L.H Products

Shirts and bumper stickers; clever & original - "Featuring the best of the suppressed and something to offend everyone"

Spanish Language Sites

La Sede Oficial en Espa–ol del Instituto Cato

Future of Freedom Foundation en Español

Taxation

Americans for Tax Reform

"ATR opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle.  We believe in a system in which taxes are simpler, fairer, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today.  The government’s power to control one’s life derives from its power to tax.  We believe that power should be minimized."

Social Security Privatization & Reform - Your money, your choice, your future

"The objective of the project is to formulate a viable blueprint for privatizing the Social Security system. The project publishes books, studies, and articles and holds conferences. ... experts examine the problems facing the current system, the methods that can be used to move towards a system of personal retirement accounts, and the effects that a new system would have on workers."

National Taxpayers Union (NTU)

"founded in 1969 to fight for the American taxpayer. NTU is the largest grassroots taxpayer organization with more than 300,000 members across all fifty states. NTU lobbies Congress and state legislatures, educates politicians and the media on important taxpayer issues and teaches its members how to become effective, united citizen lobbyists. "

Americans For Fair Taxation

"non-partisan citizens organization, seeking to replace all federal income taxes with a single rate retail sales tax at the final point of sale of new goods and services for personal consumption above the poverty level."

Tax Payers For Common Sense

"a non-partisan advocate for American taxpayers. We are dedicated to cutting wasteful spending and subsidies in order to achieve a responsible and efficient government that lives within its means."

Think Tanks/Public Policy/Foundations

Cato Institute

"seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of more options that are consistent with the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, and peace. ... strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. ...undertakes an extensive publications program dealing with the complete spectrum of policy issues. Books, monographs, and shorter studies are commissioned to examine the federal budget, Social Security, monetary policy, natural resource policy, military spending, regulation, NATO, international trade, and myriad other issues. Major policy conferences are held throughout the year, from which papers are published thrice yearly in the Cato Journal. The Institute also publishes the quarterly magazine Regulation and a bimonthly newsleter, Cato Policy Report."

New Environmentalism

"it has become clear that environmental problems are complex and unique, requiring a flexible, results-oriented approach. ... Where once environmental policy inherently mistrusted markets and punishment was pursued more vigorously than progress, today this is changing. Private innovation is the wellspring source of progress. We have learned that while environmental enforcement is indeed important, no process should overshadow the ultimate goal of progress toward a clean environment."

Privatization.org

"provides practical research and analysis, how-to guides, case studies, and reports designed to inform elected officials on how to streamline government. The Center specializes in government services--such as health services, social services, and public safety-as well as infrastructure, such as airports, electric power, highways, transit, and water/wastewater facilities. The Center explores how different institutional arrangements can create incentives for efficiency, improve customer service, enhance accountability, and save taxpayer dollars."

Reason Foundation

"Founded in 1978, the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation is a national research and educational organization that explores and promotes the twin values of rationality and freedom as the basic underpinnings of a good society. In advocating public policies based upon individual liberty and responsibility and a free-market approach, the Reason Foundation turns to practical policy research and insightful commentary -- not idealistic rhetoric."

Reason Public Policy Institute

"fuses theory and practice to craft workable policy changes that foster individual responsibility, choice, and competition. RPPI believes that a dynamic world, conductive to discovery and innovation, is essential to prosperity and human progress."

The Independent Institute

"Today, the influence of partisan interests is so pervasive that public policy debate has become too politicized and is largely confined to a narrow reconsideration of existing policies. In order to fully understand the nature of public issues and possible solutions, the Institute’s program adheres to the highest standards of independent scholarly inquiry. The Institute’s program is pursued to rigorous standards without regard to any political or social biases."

The Heartland Institute

"a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to meeting the information needs of the nation's state and national elected officials, journalists, and its members. Heartland's mission is to be its customers' fastest, most convenient, most comprehensive, and most reliable source of public policy information....Founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1984, Heartland today has a staff of ten and a budget of $1.2 million. It does not accept government funds and does not conduct "contract" research for special interest groups."

Liberty Fund, Inc.

"a private educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals." Also publishes important and classic books. Be sure to see Liberty Fund's design motif, the "earliest-known written appearance of the word liberty."

The Palmer R. Chitester (PRC) Fund

"Our goal is to create entertaining media programs and material of an intellectual nature on a range of subjects. We are particularly interested in illuminating the prerequisites of a free society."

Urban Futures Program

"strives to change the climate and terms of the debate over urban policy by developing and promoting voluntary, private-sector, and market-oriented solutions to urban problems. The program's principal activities focus on urban economic development policy and land-use planning at the local, regional, state, and national levels."