Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

Caleb Petitt is a Research Associate for the Independent Institute, where he researches historical political economy, history of economic thought, and trade. He holds a PhD in economics from George ...

Slavery tends to tyranny. * It is directly opposed to the fundamental principles of republicanism, maintained in that part of the Declaration of Independence, which declares: ‘That all men are created ...

In Stockbridge Cemetery, Massachusetts, there is a plot known as “Sedgwick Pie,” due to its unusual circular shape. The plot centers around Theodore and Pamela Sedgwick’s graves, with their children ...

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 ...

Nana Yaa Asantewaa was born in the 1840s as Asona royalty from the Besease clan in central Ghana and was of the Edweso stool line. Her brother was Kwasi Afrane and their parents were from the village ...

A discussion of the origins of the Great Depression is necessary to understand the mischaracterization of Hoover as a do- nothing president. First, the Great Depression was an exceptionally large ...

Then along came passionate, bold Mary Wollstonecraft who caused a sensation by writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). She declared that both women and men were human beings endowed with ...

Ronald Reagan is beloved by American conservatives and by many Americans who advocate for limited government. Reagan is difficult to evaluate because in the last 30 years Reagan’s legacy has undergone ...

In my last four essays, I discussed the ideas of Thomas Hodgskin. No discussion of Hodgskin would be complete without considering his great classic, The Natural and Artificial Right of Property ...