Globalization has promoted lasting gains but also elicited criticism. In this essay, Sarah Thomas focuses on two achievements ...

In Restoration-era Virginia, exiled Parliamentarians, New Model Army veterans, radical Dissenters, and African slaves joined powers to revolutionize their colony. In the early 1660s, England’s ...

The Ancient Roman Cicero’s idea of natural law has much to teach us about the evolution of liberty Studying Cicero offers us key insights into both the development of modern western theories of ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Editor’s Note ...

Hoskins and O’Driscoll explore the role of property rights in economic development ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

Woodrow Wilson was a terrible president who took his failure global. Editor’s Note The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each president did ...

Nick Wilson compares the political, social, and moral thought of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from ...

On Liberty is not merely a political text explaining the intricacies of how the state ought to act. It is a love letter to the individual virtues of intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and ...

On top of the failure of his economic agenda, FDR had a dismal record on civil liberties, privacy, and free speech. Editor’s Note The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the ...

Presley gives a rundown of some of the many black women, both famous and lesser-known, who worked toward the abolition of slavery. Black women were in the forefront of abolitionist lecturing and ...

Libertarians frequently disagree about the status of intellectual property. D’Amato explores the views of four major libertarian thinkers. The issue of intellectual property rights represents a ...