About Liberty Fund

Fostering ideas. Encouraging discussion. Creating an impact.

Liberty Fund inspires engaging conversations about the ideal of liberty through the ages and across cultures.

Liberty Fund is a private educational foundation established to enrich the understanding and appreciation of the complex nature of a society of free and responsible individuals.

Liberty Fund publishes insightful books, conducts engaging conferences, and offers thought-provoking online resources. These programs focus on the intellectual heritage of individual liberty from ancient times through our own. Liberty Fund does not engage in political activity or advocacy, nor in policy making.

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Liberty Fund Books

We believe great books are vital sources of knowledge and experience and through reading we can learn from the past to impact the future. We publish more than 400 titles exploring the ideal of liberty across many disciplines.

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Liberty Fund Conferences

Liberty Fund conferences seek to illuminate individual liberty and responsibility through the informal and open, yet serious, discussion of ideas that shape human civilization and free society.

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Online Resources

Liberty Fund offers thought-provoking online resources and content ranging from blogs, long-form articles, videos, virtual reading groups, and podcasts to free downloadable books, interactive teacher resources, and much more.

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Our Founders

Meet our founders. Their guiding principles and fundamental philosophies inspire our work every day.

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The History of Our Logo

The cuneiform inscription used in our logo is the earliest known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi) or “liberty.”

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In the books they publish, the seminars they host, and the online forums they provide, Liberty Fund promotes free and open debate about things that really matter—the nature, origins, and purposes of freedom and self-government.

Bruce P. Frohnen

Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University

Liberty Fund's mission is to explore the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. This mission is vitally important, perhaps now more than ever.

James Otteson

Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Participation in Liberty Fund’s conference and publication programs has not only deepened my understanding of some of the most important writings in the Western tradition. It has also exemplified an ideal of intellectual exchange. Liberty Fund has managed to create an environment in which genuine conversations—where people listen attentively as well as speak effectively—can occur.

David Womersley

Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature, St. Catherine's College Oxford

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