“Thou sweet dictator of the human breast, as soon as we lose sight of thee, we forfeit our happiness here as well as hereafter.” Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

The Sanskrit Arthashastra, a manual for establishing a prosperous state written in ancient India by Kautilya, articulates many principles that would later become the foundations of modern economics.

In this episode we cover Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famed statesman, lawyer, orator, and above all a lover of liberty.

Although black porters on Pullman train cars endured racial prejudice and tough working conditions, they used it as an opportunity to foment support for civil rights and to put their families on the ...

The right of revolution, according to classical liberal thinkers, is derived from the natural right of self- preservation. Because the purpose of government is to protect individuals against assaults ...

War is the quintessential undertaking of the state, especially the modern centralized nation- state of the past five or six centuries. Indeed, the relationship between the two is encapsulated in the ...

The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...

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.

Ulysses S. Grant rode his popularity to political power. “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each president did wrong while in office. While ...

Johnson’s actions in Southeast Asia are undoubtedly the most notorious aspect of his presidency, both in popular memory and mainstream histories.

She ruled as Queen Mother, defied the British, and died in captivity, all to advance Asante freedom.