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

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?

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa. Libertarian Lens on Film is a column that ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end of World War II. In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a ...

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

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. Miles Smith IV ...

Klein assesses George Will’s two most renowned books, 36 years apart, Statecraft as Soulcraft (1983) and The Conservative Sensibility (2019), finding some changes upon an underlying continuity—rather ...

Turgot, a French statesman, economist, and early advocate of economic liberalism, was one of the first to ponder how we achieve moral and material progress. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual ...

Jon Murphy and Andrew Humphries question what Adam Smith tried to tell his audience by creating a fictitious interaction between Plato and Parmenides. Andrew G. Humphries is a visiting assistant ...