Sarah Thomas reviews Ludwig von Mises’s Liberalism, appreciating his humane account of classical liberalism in its political ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the fraught relationship between the media, marketing, and government, and the complex implications for truth, power, and propaganda.

We’ve all heard someone say, “It’s my right!” when they feel their freedom is being limited. But individual rights are often taken for granted in modern democracies—usually only noticed when they’re ...

“I say to you, my prohibition friends, your movement is doomed to defeat, because you build on a foundation of sand, on a perverted principle.” At the national level, alcohol prohibition was an ...

Written in 1320 amid war and uncertainty, the Declaration of Arbroath insisted that kings exist for their people and may be replaced when they fail in their duties. The Declaration is among the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having previously discussed abolitionist black women, Presley highlights some of the white women in the movement to end slavery. The valiant efforts of abolitionist men like William Lloyd Garrison, ...