Passion for Liberty

Tibor Machan defends a libertarian conception of a free society one in which individuals are sovereign self-governing beings not subject to others' will without their consent. In the tradition of John Locke Adam Smith Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick Machan argues that such a society-far from being hedonistic licentious or disorderly-is the best possible ideal for humans. In doing so he addresses specific issues such as affirmative action abortion military intervention and torture in light of the relationship between liberty and democracy.