Some interesting thoughts on the future of libertarianism from Virginia Postrel:

While the last century‚Äôs greatest threats to liberty, prosperity, and peace came from totalitarian nation-states, today‚Äôs come from transnational organizations‚Äîranging from imperialistic regulators (the European Union) to violent religious crusaders‚Äîand from ‚Äúfailed states‚Äù where warring gangs have superseded governments. Focusing on the nation-state as the source of all threats to liberty is anachronistic… Against these ideological and institutional challenges, liberal society will need the practical lessons of libertarian scholarship on decentralized order and knowledge sharing. It will need the cultural libertarianism that knows liberal society is not just familiar but good. And it will need the 18th-century wisdom that lets skepticism happily coexist with civility and reason. Surviving the 21st century with our sanity and civilization intact will require less Nietzsche and more Hume.