Liberty Magazine Archives

by Stephan Kinsella on January 14, 2026

Liberty magazine, one the original libertarian magazines (not the one published by libertarian anarchist Benjamin Tucker from 1881–1908) ¹ inaugurated by R.W. Bradford (1947–2005), was published in print form from 1987 to 2010, and then online at https://libertyunbound.com/ until a few years ago by succeeding editor Stephen Cox (1948–2024). The online site had PDF files for all the old print issues. Unfortunately, the online site disappeared some time ago and the Internet archive only has spotty archives.

I’ve long been an opponent of copyright, ² closed publishing and paywalls and a proponent of open publishing. After my work had some influence, Jeffrey Tucker during his tenure at the Mises Institute started releasing its publications with a CC-BY license and released as much material as possible online. ³ Over ten years ago, I offered to help Reason Papers put all its old material online, by scanning and formatting all its old volumes and helping editor Aeon Skoble put them online; now all new issues are put online and all the old ones are available as well. When the Journal of Libertarian Studies, originally founded and edited by Rothbard in 1977 until his death in 1995, and then by Hans-Hermann Hoppe from 1995–2005, fell into desuetude, with Jeff Tucker’s help I founded a new journal, Libertarian Papers, which was also open course (CC-BY) and completely open and online ⁴ (it was published for ten years until the JLS was revived).

Frustrated by the loss of the online archives of Liberty, I recently searched for anyone connected with Liberty to see if could obtain the PDF files, including my friend Timo Wirkman Virkkala, and finally was contacted by Mark Rand, who worked at Liberty for a few years. He sent me the PDFs and told me that “Liberty’s board (now dissolved) always hoped to find a way to make these issues freely available to the public, so I am more than happy to share them with you for that purpose.” Therefore, I post them here, with permission.

I’m reminded here of Ayn Rand’s angry cursing of Nathaniel Branden after she discovered his lies and affairs: “If you have an ounce of morality left in you, an ounce of psychological health—you’ll be impotent for the next twenty years! And if you achieve any potency, you’ll know it’s a sign of still worse moral degradation!” ⁵ Likewise, while I cannot stop pro-intellectual property libertarians from using this material, in all justice they should not, or should at least feel ashamed and hypocritical when doing so or, even better, rethink their misguided support of evil IP law.

I may update this later with more detailed information and prettier formatting, but for now the issues below are available online. If any mistakes are found please let me know. You can find some descriptions of past issues and contents in the spotty and incomplete archives, e.g. here, here, here. If anyone wants to volunteer to extract this information and send it to me to add here in a more useable form to describe the content of each issue, contact me.