Written in 1320 amid war and uncertainty, the Declaration of Arbroath insisted that kings exist for their people and may be ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s ...

In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the ...

While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

INSIDE THE BOOK “FDR: A New Political Life” by David Beito. In this “INSIDE THE BOOK” episode, we talk with David Beito, author of “FDR: A New Political Life” (2025). Beito’s book examines the latest ...

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the English word liberal has had several non- political meanings. It was not ...

Life in early colonial Virginia was as nasty, brutish, and short as it got for seventeenth- century Englishmen. Very few documents remain from common people for the whole of the seventeenth- century, ...

Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. He is an academic, lawyer, columnist, and ...

Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason magazine. He authored six books, including Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (2007). Doherty’s ...

While contemporary defenders of state paternalism offer some formidable cases for it, Bill Glod suggests in this essay how liberals and libertarians can offer powerful responses. In the previous essay ...