Written in 1320 amid war and uncertainty, the Declaration of Arbroath insisted that kings exist for their people and may be ...

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s ...

In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the ...

While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

James Forten published these letters as part of a campaign against a bill which would have had severe negative consequences for the rights of free blacks in Pennsylvania. The black freeman James ...

Melville provides a more- or- less first- hand account of the almost excruciatingly lucious lives of London’s lawyerly elite. IT lies not far from Temple- Bar. Going to it, by the usual way, is like ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

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. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ...