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 ...

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

In Monterrey, Mexico, there is a distinctive spirit that speaks to what is worth pursuing in life, to what a regiomontano can and should aspire to become, explains Eugenio Garza drawing on his ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first President of the United States, who occupied the White House from 1929 to 1933, generally falls near the bottom of presidential rankings. However, his position in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early 20 th century journalist Walter Lippman exemplified the attempt to combine capitalism with “the social question” in opposition to both socialism and laissez-faire. This image is from Nieman ...