Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo examine the individualist and entrepreneurial themes in Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala ...

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

Shenoy contrasts the results produced in the two halves of Berlin, one under communism and the other capitalism. In this article, B. R. Shenoy—one of India’s most prominent free-market ...

Upon his election as President in April of 1790, churches and congregations wrote letters to George Washington congratulating him on his victory. In true Washington fashion, he replied to each with ...

Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called libertarians.

Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called ...

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

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 ...

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. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

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 ...

Presley gives a rundown of some of the many black women, both famous and lesser-known, who worked toward the abolition of slavery. Black women were in the forefront of abolitionist lecturing and ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius. Any American high schooler can tell you that the separation of powers ...