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 property—and won.

“We hope that our Government [secures] the Oregon Territory…before the great Brigand of the World pollutes [it with] the freebooters standard of Great Britain.” As the British Empire consolidated its ...

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 ...

Smith constructed four maxims of taxation for public funding. Adam Smith is widely regarded as the godfather of classical economics, but also deserves credit as a fundamental thinker in public finance ...

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 ...

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. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

The medieval ages are hardly a time renowned for freedom lovers, but the philosophy of John of Salisbury encapsulates a love of freedom and a deep hatred for unchecked power. The 12th- century ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ...

Mussolini attempted to remake the Italian mind, taking a personal interest in applying the twin tools of censorship and propaganda. David S. D’Amato is an attorney, a regular opinion contributor at ...