Globalization has promoted lasting gains but also elicited criticism. In this essay, Sarah Thomas focuses on two achievements ...

The Monterrey spirit is a shared set of ideas, beliefs, norms about life, work, trade, entrepreneurship, and authority. It speaks to what is worth pursuing in life, to what a regiomontano can and ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo examine the individualist and entrepreneurial themes in Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala while also looking at the film's portrayal of collectivism as violent and ...

The Declaration of Independence's greatest legacy was not that others copied 1776 word for word, but that it helped transform the way people everywhere understood what made political authority ...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) published a new policy program and platform this summer called Workers Deserve More. A committee elected under the group’s 2025 convention rules drafted it, ...

The French Revolution, which usually dates from the meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 to the end of the Directory in 1799, or sometimes to 1815, was part of a more general movement for liberal ...

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

Paul D. Mueller joins us for a discussion on the life and ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and pioneer of economic theory, Adam Smith. In this selection from The Wealth of Nations, Adam ...

In his dissent from Taney’s opinion, Justice Woodbury began by agreeing that the Dorr War was a political matter best left out of the courts. Woodbury argues that the Dorr “War” presented no real ...

Are libertarians begging the question when they talk about what counts as aggression? Not so, argues D’Amato. Is there a contradiction in forbidding aggression against persons and permitting people to ...

Barun Mitra is a free thinker. These days he is keen to explore possible ways of putting ideas in to action, particularly applying the principles of freedom in to practices on the ground. His analysis ...