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 ...

In Stockbridge Cemetery, Massachusetts, there is a plot known as “Sedgwick Pie,” due to its unusual circular shape. The plot centers around Theodore and Pamela Sedgwick’s graves, with their children ...

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 ...

There are certain nations which have peculiar reasons for cherishing the liberty of the press, independently of the general motives which I have just pointed out. For in certain countries 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 than ...

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 ...

The institutions for the instruction of people of all ages are chiefly those for religious instruction. This is a species of instruction of which the object is not so much to render the people good ...