(Scroll down to see a list of English-language websites)
SITES EN LANGUE FRANÇAISE
La vocation de Catallaxia
est d’étoffer la présence de la pensée philosophico-politique libérale sur le
net en langue française. Elle y réussit. Vous y trouverez beaucoup de bons textes à télécharger et à imprimer.
Le domaine d'action de l'Institut EURO 92 ne se limite pas à l'économie, mais s'étend à la redécouverte
et à la reformulation des racines philosophiques, juridiques et culturelles,
sur lesquelles se fonde la véritable tradition européenne et occidentale des
libertés individuelles. Tout un programme. Il est rempli.
Le site
de Patrick Madrolle, avec une dédicace du Professeur Pascal Salin, recense de
bons textes d’auteurs libéraux. Un village d’hommes libres
est un lieu propice où puiser des idées neuves et des raisons
supplémentaires de croire à la liberté.
Le Champ libre offre le point de vue des libéraux
« hard » sur l’actualité française.
Libre
Échange est le journal de
langue française présentant les idées libérales dans leur version la moins
expurgée.
Autre journal
résolument ultra-libéral, celui d’Alain Dumait, Les 4 Vérités.
Le site LIBRES est présenté par l’ALEPS et Génération Libérale,
deux associations qui se proposent de faire connaître et apprécier le
libéralisme bon teint bon genre. Certaines pages sont encore en construction.
Pro Libertate est une
association née dans la Suisse paisible pour la promotion des idées libérales.
Concurrence.org torpille les inepties professées dans les cours d’économie et les medias
sur les lois anti-monopole.
Le site libertarien et
non-conformiste : le titre est le programme.
Parti-pris, site du Docteur Claude
Reichman, et rendez-vous des libéraux et de l’entreprise.
La page perso
d’Aleric Brei-Lefebvre qui contient la web-ring libérale, des documents
libéraux dont quelques textes et fichiers real-audio de François Guillaumat,
une page Radio-Courtoisie, etc ...
Le
site d’Hervé Duray, La Page Libérale http://liberte.free.fr,
a pour but de commenter l'information quotidienne sous un angle libéral.
Enfin, les sites perso des professeurs Bertrand Lemennicier et Pierre Lemieux contiennent tout ce qu’il faut pour hérisser le poil des étatistes, des constipés politiques et des bien-pensants. Jubilatoires.
SITES BILINGUES/BILINGUAL WEBSITES
La philosophie libertarienne du QUÉBÉCOIS LIBRE s’exprime
dans un webzine, où l’on retrouve les signatures du directeur, Martin
Masse, de Gilles Guénette, Pierre Lemieux, et de plusieurs jeunes libéraux
canadiens. Une lecture rafraîchissante, qui ouvre souvent des points de vue
nouveaux sur les éternels problèmes des rapports sociaux et de la coercition
étatique.
François-René Rideau, alias Faré, a monté un site perso, bourré de matériel bien réfléchi, sur le libéralisme, et spécifiquement sur les questions de propriété intellectuelle et de logiciels libres. Le visiteur y consultera avec bonheur un site jumeau, bilingue lui aussi, consacré à l’immortel Frédéric Bastiat.
L’autre site
consacré au plus grand économiste français est celui du Cercle Frédéric Bastiat. Tout y est, en français, en anglais, et même
en allemand.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WEBSITES
Libertarian International (www.libertarian.to) is a network of classical liberal and libertarian individuals and organisations in Europe. Its purpose is to coordinate various initiatives in the defence of individual liberty throughout the world. The country code .to stands for Tonga (why not ? Libertarians are not too formal about things like nations and states), but if you need to know, Libertarian International is registered in the Netherlands as a non-profit foundation. I am one of the founders, and you have no doubt noticed the Libertarian International logo on the home page of Liberalia.
Probably the largest libertarian publishing house, Libertarian Alliance is a cyber-library of well researched but hard-hitting papers and pamphlets touching all aspects of social life, from Roman history to prostitution to classical music. Certainly one of the very best liberal/libertarian websites.
The Voluntaryists are my kind of libertarians. They advocate non-political, non-violent
strategies to achieve a free society. They believe, like I do, that electoral
politics, in theory and in practice, are incompatible with libertarian
principles. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through
education, and they advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on
which State power ultimately depends. Their well thought-out and coherent
philosophy is set out in their publication, The Voluntaryist, which I very highly
recommend.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute has a
website and it is packed with downloadable texts from Mises (including his Human
Action), from Rothbard, and many other scholars.
If you do
not have a subscription to American Partisan, Capitalism Magazine,
Laissez-Faire City Times, Reason, and the publications of the Cato Institute,
the Heritage Foundation, the Mises Institute, the Institute For Economic
Affairs et al., then you want to visit LibertySearch.com at least once a
month. You will find on this site a selection of articles published by all
these wonderful institutes and magazines.
The job of the Advocates For Self-Government is to present the freedom philosophy to opinion leaders. It is certainly a job that we European libertarians, have not been tackling hard enough. One of the tools used by the Advocates is their “smallest-in-the-world political quiz”. It has been copied by many, and I have not resisted the temptation myself. You can see my version for the French public on this site “De droite ou de gauche ?”
The Acton Institute is inspired by the writings of Lord Acton, the great Cambridge historian and moral thinker (“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”). Acton was a Catholic, and the Institute works with church leadership, educational institutions, and individuals in business or the ministry to promote an understanding of market principles and to encourage the economic freedom. This is a very necessary activity. I believe that our moral ideals are still shaped by Christianity and it is only if we show that Christian principles do not conflict with freedom that libertarianism will gain the moral high ground.
Liberty Magazine like most similar US publications pays only scant attention to anything happening in the rest of the world. Still it is well worth subscribing too.
Reason Magazine is a publication of the Reason Foundation, a research and educational organisation that explores and promotes public policies based on rationality and freedom (there are not many than can boast that). Like its fellow magazine, Liberty, it is mostly devoted to US issues, but it always makes for an enjoyable and stimulating reading.
Wendy McElroy's Home Page is a site for Individualist Feminism and Individualist Anarchism. Wendy is a frequent speaker at libertarian events. The site reproduces her publications in The Freeman, Reason, Liberty Magazine and others.
The Center For The Moral Defense Of Capitalism is an ammunition store you can draw from when debating freedom with its enemies.
The Center For Libertarian Studies hosts The Journal Of Libertarian Studies, Left & Right, and other good stuff. You will find there many articles by Murray Rothbard, unavailable elsewhere.
The Freeman has stopped publishing, but its archives are available on the website of the Advocates For Self-Government.
The Future of Freedom Foundation mission is to advance the libertarian philosophy by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property and limited government.
Professor Bryan Caplan has a home page with interesting libertarian material. Also, I always find a visit at Professor Frank van Dun’s multilingual web site interesting and stimulating. He is a natural law philosopher, in the great tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Bastiat and Rothbard.
Anarchist Wolf De Voon has collected all his essays on the site Free Spirit. The texts will take several minutes to download (well worth it). If you want to chew one piece at a time, you can find many of Wolf De Voon’s essays in the Laissez Faire City Times.