Harrison Searles traces how Patriots during the American Revolution used intimidation, disarmament, confiscation, conscription, and even execution against fellow Americans who resisted their cause, ...

In Monterrey, Mexico, there is a distinctive spirit that speaks to what is worth pursuing in life, to what a regiomontano can and should aspire to become, explains Eugenio Garza drawing on his ...

Adam Smith authorized the pursuit of honest income. But what should we do with that income? Max Laraia explores whether Peter Singer’s moral imperative to reduce suffering is consistent with Smith’s ...

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).

Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones Act of today? Caleb Petitt argues that a careful reading of Smith on the ...

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 ...

The prolific Schuyler proffered a controversial combination of conservative and anti-racist politics. George S. Schuyler was a black journalist, conservative commentator, successful novelist, and ...

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 local newspaper industry is in crisis, but local journalism is being reinvented by the newsletter. While the sixty percent of Americans who distrust mass media might be tempted to rejoice rather ...