The following links will take you to some of the writers about freedom and authors of books on liberty.

• Charles Adams, historian of taxes.

• Barbara Branden, Ayn Rand's first biographer.

• Nathaniel Branden, confidant of Ayn Rand and author on self-esteem.

• Randy Barnett, legal scholar and libertarian thinker.

• Frederic Bastiat, 19th century French economic journalist.

• James T. Bennett, economist of philanthropy, health care and labor unions.

• Bruce L. Benson, shows that the private sector does a better job than government resolving disputes and protecting people against crime.

• David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute and prolific libertarian author.

• Peter Boettke, Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a wonderful thinker and teacher of austrian economics.

• Clint Bolick, co-founder, vice president and litigation director of the Institute for Justice.

• James Bovard, today's most effective investigative reporter for liberty.

• Harry Browne, investment advisor and Libertarian Party candidate for President.

• James M. Buchanan, Nobel laureate and founder of the Public Choice school of economics.

• Roy A. Childs, Jr., editor of the LFB catalog and inspiration to libertarians everywhere."

• Thomas J. Dilorenzo, professor and writer, many of his books deal with corrupt government institutions.

• Alan Ebenstein

• Richard A. Epstein, one of today's most important legal thinkers for liberty.

• John T. Flynn, journalist and critic of FDR.

• Milton & Rose Friedman, Nobel laureate economist and spouse.

• David Friedman, law professor, recreational medievalist and prominent anarchist.

• F.A. Hayek, Nobel laureate economist and writer on the importance of spontaneous orders.

• Henry Hazlitt, journalist and popularizer of free-market ideas.

• Karl Hess, journalist, speech writer, activist, author and libertarian rabble-rouser.

• Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, expert on the American Civil War.

• Paul Johnson, independent scholar and historian.

• David Kelley, philosopher, founder, and executive director of the Objectivist Center.

• Israel M. Kirzner, perhaps the most important living economist of the Austrian School.

• Daniel Klein, Professor of economics, author and co-Director of the Civil Society Institute.

• Rose Wilder Lane, journalist and one of the founders of modern libertarianism.

• Tibor Machan, a leading philosopher of individualism.

• Peter McWilliams, author and crusader against the war on drugs.

• H.L. Mencken, the rough-tongued critic of all kinds of bunkum.

• Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics.

• Ludwig von Mises, the most important and most prolific Austrian School economist.

• Maria Montessori, Italian educator who developed a revolutionary teaching method.

• Charles Murray, scholar, critic of the welfare state, and libertarian visionary.

• Albert Jay Nock, the shining light of individualism in the first part of the 20th century.

• P.J. O'Rourke, the funniest critic of government alive.

• Jim Powell, writer, publisher, historian, economist.

• Ayn Rand, the novelist who brought more people to libertarianism than any other writer.

• Sheldon Richman, writer, scholar, editor.

• Murray N. Rothbard, the great radical libertarian writier and economist.

• Chris Matthew Sciabarra, one of the great contributors to the understanding of Ayn Rand's philosophy.

• Julian Simon, environmental optimist and scourge of the doom-'n-gloomers.

• Mark Skousen, economist and repected investment advisor.

• Adam Smith, father of modern economics.

• George Smith, independent scholar who has written perceptively about libertarian philosophy and free thought.

• Tara Smith, professor of philosophy, writer of clarity

• Thomas Sowell, wide-ranging Hoover Institution scholar.

• Lysander Spooner, One of the greatest defenders of natural rights.

• John Stossel, most effective presenter of pro-liberty views on network television.

• Thomas S. Szasz, the outspoken critic of psychiatry as medicine.

• Walter Williams, economist who does a yeoman's job defending liberty.