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 Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. Editor’s Note Libertarian Lens on Film is a column that explores ...

Nick Wilson compares the political, social, and moral thought of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from ...

Larry Reed revisits “I, Pencil” with reflections on the global market. This essay is an initiative of Liberty International (previously known as the International Society for Individual Liberty).

On top of the failure of his economic agenda, FDR had a dismal record on civil liberties, privacy, and free speech. Editor’s Note The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the ...

Woodrow Wilson was a terrible president who took his failure global. Editor’s Note The “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each president did ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Editor’s Note ...

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” has been a popular libertarian slogan since the 1960s. The slogan’s meaning is simple: you cannot make something from nothing. In a political context, the ...

The subject divides itself into first, “The Alien Act,” secondly, “The Sedition Act.” Of the “Alien act,” it is affirmed by the resolution, 1st. That it exercises a power no where delegated to the ...

The government’s coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. Say the words “class analysis” or ...