Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Channing, a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson, argues that in the nature of property rights, human beings cannot be the property of others.

Childs argues that Rand’s Objectivism logically implies support for anarchism, not for a single state that can exclude competitors within its territory.

In the first part of the Democratic Review ’s peek into the private life of American bank directors and fund managers, the anonymous author introduced the story’s narrator and hero (of sorts). Our ...

Martin Van Buren could have warned us that Donald Trump is what you get when a modern political party stops functioning like one.

The US Social Security system can’t fulfill its promises, but Australia’s system gives its people a better shot at a comfortable retirement.

The 19th- century Englishman Richard Cobden is famous for abolishing the Corn Laws, a great victory for free trade, which has inspired free marketeers across the globe.

Smith explains some fundamental tenets of the moral sense school of ethics, especially as found in the writings of Francis Hutcheson.

How very appealing was the socialist idea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before the First World War! All the burdens of life and everyday work, all the seemingly unjust inequalities of ...

Jason Sorens briefly noted this in his overview of liberty in the year behind and ahead, and Cato’s Colleen Hroncich has laid it out in more detail. In 2023, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah all ...

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Havel’s Place in Georgetown, an episode dedicated to the dissidents of Czechoslovakia responsible for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, overthrowing the brutal ...