Essays: Listed Alphabetically

Here is a list of essays by George H. Smith. Where an essay is part of a collection of more than ten essays, I have created a separate page for that topic.

There are many articles so it will take a while to compile a complete list. Each listing includes title, date, and publisher. Each is linked to the relevant essay. In listing alphabetically, the complete title including articles such as "a" and "the" are included. However, some essays that are part of a series do not have titles that follow each other if listed alphabetically. In such cases, I have created a title followed by a colon followed by the original title. The series below on Natural Rights is an example.

Unless otherwise indicated, all articles are at Libertarianism.org.

We start with a featured essay, George's reflection on his third anniversary writing for Libertarianism.org. It is a good introduction to his essays and why he writes. In it he compares pragmatism and ideology and explains why the history of libertarian philosophy is important. As he puts it, "Thus if we want to know how to persuade people to accept the ideas of liberty and establish a free society, we should begin by reading our successful ancestors.  Their ideas are as fresh and suggestive as the day they were written, however old and dusty the books may be in which those ideas appear."

• My Libertarianism.org Essays: A Third Anniversary Celebration (2014)

Series of Articles

• Abolitionism - 51 articles (categories: Abolitionism, Wendell Phillips
• Ayn Rand and the History of Philosophy - 13 articles (categories: Ayn Rand, Aristotle, History of Philosophy, Immanuel Kant, William Friedrich Hegel)
• Encyclopedia of Libertarianism - various contributions
• Ethics and Morality - 15 articles (categories: beliefs, ethics, morality)
• Freethought and Freedom - 29 articles (categories: atheism, Augustine, Benedict Spinoza, Christianity, deism, Edward Gibbon, Francis Bacon, freethought, G.W. Foote, Jean Meslier, John Calvin, John Locke, John Toland, Martin Luther, morality, property, Richard Carlile, secularism, Shaftesbury, skepticism, Thomas Aquinas)
• Self-interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism - 11 articles (categories: atomism, benevolence, Bernard Mandeville, classical liberalism, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, individualism, Joseph Butler, self-interest, selfish system, selfishness, Shaftesbury, Thomas Hobbes)
• Social Laws - 10 articles (categories: Emile Durkheim, empiricism, Herbert Spencer, Ludwig Von Mises, methodological individualism, methodological subjectivism, positivism, praxeology, social holism, social laws, sociology 
• Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke - 11 articles (categories: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine)

Below are individual essays s well as series with fewer than ten items. 

• A Gossipy Interlude: George Eliot, Herbert Spencer and John Chapman, Part 1 (2013) 
• A Gossipy Interlude: George Eliot, Herbert Spencer and John Chapman, Part 2 (2013) 
• A Gossipy Interlude: George Eliot, Herbert Spencer and John Chapman, Part 3 (2013) 
• A Misunderstanding, the Townshend Act, and More trouble in the American Colonies (2011)
• Americans with Attitudes: Smuggling in Colonial America (2011)
• Among My Favorites: History of Civilization in England, by H. T. Buckle, Part 1 (2013) 
• Among My Favorites: History of Civilization in England, by H. T. Buckle, Part 2 (2013) 
• Among My Favorites: History of Civilization in England, by H. T. Buckle, Part 3 (2013) 
• Among My Favorites: History of Civilization in England, by H. T. Buckle, Part 4 (2013) 
• Ayn Rand and Altruism, Part 1 (2012)
• Ayn Rand and Altruism, Part 2 (2012)
• Ayn Rand and Altruism, Part 3 (2012)
• Ayn Rand and Altruism, Part 4 (2012)
• Ayn Rand and Altruism, Part 5 (2012)
• Barack Obama, Social Darwinism, and Survival of the Fittest, Part 1 (2012)
• Barack Obama, Social Darwinism, and Survival of the Fittest, Part 2 (2012)
• Barack Obama, Social Darwinism, and Survival of the Fittest, Part 3 (2012)
• Committees of Correspondence and the Road to American Independence (2012)
• Critics of State Education Part 1: Joseph Priestley (2012)
• Critics of State Education Part 2: The British Voluntaryists (2012)
• Critics of State Education Part 3: The Problem of Indoctrintion and the Need for Diversity (2012)
• Critics of State Education Part 4: A Free Market in Education (2012)
• Defending the Non-aggression Principle: A Reply to Matt Zwolinski Part 1 (2013) 
• Defending the Non-aggression Principle: A Reply to Matt Zwolinski Part 2 (2013) 
• Defending the Non-aggression Principle: A Reply to Matt Zwolinski Part 3 (2013) 
• Defending the Non-aggression Principle: A Reply to Matt Zwolinski Part 4 (2013) 
• Defending the Non-aggression Principle: A Reply to Matt Zwolinski Part 5 (2013) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 1 (2014) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 2 (2014) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 3 (2014) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 4 (2014) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 5 (2014) 
• Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 6 (2014) 
• Fascism Part 1: Ayn Rand on Fascism (2016)
• Fascism Part 2: Ernst Cassirer on Fascism and National Socialism (2016)
• Fascism Part 3: Immanuel Kant and Nazism (2016)
• Fingering the King on the Road to Independence (2012)
• Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 1 (2013)
• Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 2 (2013)
• Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 3 (2013)
• Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 4 (2013)
• Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 5 (2013)
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 1 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 2 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 3 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 4 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 5 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 6 (2012) 
• From Optimism to Pessimism: The Case of Herbert Spencer, Part 7 (2012) 
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 1 (2013) 
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 2 (2013) 
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 3 (2013)
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 4 (2013) 
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 5 (2013) 
• Herbert Spencer, Henry George and the Land Question, Part 6 (2013) 
• How to Argue for Libertarianism, Part 1 (2016)
• How to Argue for Libertarianism, Part 2: How Not to Make a Fool of Yourself in Arguments (2016)
• How Well Do You Know Libertarian History? (2013) 
• Ideas, Human Action, and Social Change (2014)
• Immanuel Kant and Nazism (2016)
• Independence Day: What is There to Celebrate? (2014)
• Instead of a Review: A Commentary on Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jason Brennan, Part 1 (2012)
• Instead of a Review: A Commentary on Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jason Brennan, Part 2 (2012)
• Intellectuals and Libertarianism: F.A. Hayek (2014)
• Intellectuals and Libertarianism: Thomas Sowell and Robert Nisbet (2014)
• Introducing Anarchism and Justice by Roy A. Childs Jr., Part 1 (2012) 
• Introducing Anarchism and Justice by Roy A. Childs Jr., Part 2 (2012) 
• Introducing Anarchism and Justice by Roy A. Childs Jr., Part 3 (2012) 
• Introducing Anarchism and Justice by Roy A. Childs Jr., Part 4 (2012) 
• Introducing Anarchism and Justice by Roy A. Childs Jr., Part 5 (2012) 
• Jack and Jill and Two Kinds of Freedom (2012)
• Jeremy Bentham’s Attack on Natural Rights (2012)
• John Locke: The Justification of Private Property (2015)
• John Locke: Hermeneutics and Labor (2015)
• John Locke: Some Problems in Locke's Theory of Private Property (2015)
• John Locke: Some Qualifications in Locke's Theory of Property (2015)
• John Locke: Money and Private Property (2015)
• John Locke: In Search of the Radical Locke (2015)
• John Locke: A Leveller Connection? (2015)
• Lord Acton and the History of Liberty, Part 1 (2013)
• Lord Acton and the History of Liberty, Part 2 (2013)
• Lord Acton and the History of Liberty, Part 3 (2013)
• Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation Under Socialism, Part 1 (2013) 
• Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation Under Socialism, Part 2 (2013) 
• Methodology of the Human Sciences (2013)
• Monopolies, Mercantilism, Illegal Buttons and Saltpeter Men (2012)
• My Interview With Adam Smith (2018) 
• Natural Rights and the Moral Foundations of Libertarianism, Part 1 (2013)
• Natural Rights and the Moral Foundations of Libertarianism, Part 2 (2013)
• Natural Rights Part 1: A Justification of Natural Rights (2018)
• Natural Rights Part 2: Where Do Rights Come From? (2018)
• Natural Rights Part 3: Criticisms of Natural Rights (2018)
• Natural Rights Part 4: Concluding Remarks on Natural Rights (2018)
• Negative and Positive Liberty, Part 1 (2012)
• Negative and Positive Liberty, Part 2 (2012)
• Negative and Positive Liberty: Some Historical Reflections (2013)
• Neoconservatism Versus Libertarianism, Part 1 (2012)
• Neoconservatism Versus Libertarianism, Part 2 (2012)
• Neoconservatism Versus Libertarianism, Part 3 (2012)
• Notes on Persecution and Toleration in the History of Christianity (2013)
• Rand, “The Virtue of Selfishness,” and Veatch, “Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics” (1975)
• Reflections on Freedom of Religion (2012) 
• Religious Toleration Versus Religious Freedom (2011) (George's first essay at Libertarianism.org)
• Remembering Roy Childs (2012) (Originally in Liberty Magazine 1992)
• Rudolf Rocker and the Will to Power, Part 1 (2014)
• Rudolf Rocker and the Will to Power, Part 2 (2014)
• Samuel Johnson Part 1: Hack Writer Extraordinaire (2018)
• Samuel Johnson Part 2: Samuel Johnson and his Dictionary (2018)
• Samuel Johnson Part 3: The Controversy Over Samuel Johnson's Royal Pension (2018)
• Sigmund, “Natural Law in Political Thought” (1974)
• Some Reflections on the History of Philosophy (2016)
• Some Thoughts on Writing Essays (2017)
• State and Society, Part 1 (2013)
• State and Society, Part 2 (2013) 
• State and Society, Part 3 (2013) 
• "That Audacious Document": Notes on the Declaration of Independence (2011)
• The Boston Massacre (2012)
• The Boston Tea Party (2012)
• The Coercive Acts and Their Theoretical Significance (2012) 
• The Culture of Liberty: Wilhelm von Humboldt (2013)
• The Literature of Freethought (1977)
• The Lust for Power (2014)
• The Other Adam Smith, Part 1 (2013) 
• The Other Adam Smith, Part 2 (2013) 
• The Other Adam Smith, Part 3 (2013) 
• The Other Adam Smith, Part 4 (2013) 
• The Other Adam Smith, Part 5 (2013) 
• The Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, Part 1 (2011) 
• The Philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, Part 2 (2011)
• The Roots of State Education Part 1: The Spartan Model (2012)
• The Roots of State Education Part 2: Plato's Case Against Free Market Education (2012)
• The Roots of State Education Part 3: Aristotle and Civic Virtue (2012)
• The Sons of Liberty and Resistance to the Stamp Act, Part One (2011)
• The Sons of Liberty and Resistance to the Stamp Act, Part Two (2011)
• Thomas Hodgskin: Libertarian Extraordinaire Part 1 (2012) 
• Thomas Hodgskin: Libertarian Extraordinaire Part 2 (2012) 
• Thomas Hodgskin: Libertarian Extraordinaire Part 3 (2012) 
• Thomas Hodgskin: Libertarian Extraordinaire Part 4 (2012)
• Thomas Hodgskin vs Herbert Spencer, Part 1 (2013) 
• Thomas Hodgskin vs Herbert Spencer, Part 2 (2013) 
• Thomas Hodgskin vs Herbert Spencer, Part 3 (2013) 
• Thomas Hodgskin Versus Jeremy Bentham (2012)
• Thomas Jefferson on Public Education Part 1 (2012) 
• Thomas Jefferson on Public Education Part 2 (2012) 
• Thoughts on Libertarian Strategy for the New Year (2013)
• Toward an Interdisciplinary Study of Liberty, Part 1 (2014)
• Toward an Interdisciplinary Study of Liberty, Part 2 (2014)
• Tracking Freedom With the Human Sciences, Part 1 (2013)
• Tracking Freedom With the Human Sciences, Part 2 (2013)
• Value Judgments and the Human Sciences (2014)
• Was Thomas Jefferson a Plagiarist? (2011) 
• What Are the Human Sciences? (2013)
• What is Value? (1976) 
• Will the Real Herbert Spencer Please Stand Up (1978)