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 ...

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

During a time when enslaved Americans sought freedom through escape, Elizabeth Freeman challenged her legal status as ...

A central figure in Western philosophy, Plato was founder of the Academy in Athens, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the ...

It is not uncommonly imagined in France that the virulence of the press originates in the uncertain social condition, in the political excitement, and the general sense of consequent evil which ...

By Levi D. Slamm. New York Daily Plebeian, 11 April 1844. The Oregon dispute promises to be one of the most vexed subjects that we have had to settle with Great Britain[,] perhaps not less tangled ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023).The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate ...

V.1.191. In the church of Rome, the industry and zeal of the inferior clergy are*139 kept more alive by the powerful motive of self- interest than perhaps in any established protestant church. The ...