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

Despite differences over tactics, American Progressivism and Italian Fascism shared commitments to a transcendant “People” and the all- powerful “Nation.” The Progressive Party, one of several ...

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.

Some abolitionists saw the state as complicit in slavery and tried to fight slavery without its help. The antislavery movement, while extremely humble in its origins and slow in its growth, steadily ...

Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University. Her publications include The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy and the Theatre (Edinburgh University ...

“Thou sweet dictator of the human breast, as soon as we lose sight of thee, we forfeit our happiness here as well as hereafter.” Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

Wollstonecraft argues the case for women’s rights entirely in libertarian terms of equal and natural rights.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be ...

Tocqueville warns of the dangers from a nurturing government “extending its arm over the whole community.” I had remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, ...

Paterson argues that the desire to do good for others can lead people to the conclusion that their concept of the good should be enforced by compulsion.