In light of Constitution Week, Sarah Thomas reflects on the achievement of American constitutionalism by placing the US ...

In Dostoevsky's novella Notes from Underground, the narrator, who is commonly referred to as the Underground Man, fails to see that genuine freedom requires self-responsibility, human connection, and ...

Levi Hart defines and describes the most essential types of liberty—a necessary precursor to his later attacks on all things slavery. The Reverend Levi Hart was well enough liked in his time and place ...

The government’s coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. Say the words “class analysis” or ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Proudhon’s conception of federalism permits us a fuller understanding of ...

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

Mussolini attempted to remake the Italian mind, taking a personal interest in applying the twin tools of censorship and propaganda. The unique totalitarian project of Italian Fascism reposed on a ...

Prof. Aeon Skoble describes the key differences between positive and negative rights. Fundamentally, positive rights require others to provide you with either a good or service. A negative right, on ...

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 ...

How a group of veterans restored democracy to a small town. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” is a quote commonly, and incorrectly, attributed to Thomas Jefferson. It was, in fact, never ...

The subject divides itself into first, “The Alien Act,” secondly, “The Sedition Act.” Of the “Alien act,” it is affirmed by the resolution, 1st. That it exercises a power no where delegated to the ...