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 ...

While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the ...

James Forten published these letters as part of a campaign against a bill which would have had severe negative consequences for the rights of free blacks in Pennsylvania. The black freeman James ...

Melville provides a more- or- less first- hand account of the almost excruciatingly lucious lives of London’s lawyerly elite. IT lies not far from Temple- Bar. Going to it, by the usual way, is like ...

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the English word liberal has had several non-​political meanings. It was not ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...

Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a ...

George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith’s ...