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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...