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

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 ...

Presley gives a rundown of some of the many black women, both famous and lesser-known, who worked toward the abolition of slavery. Black women were in the forefront of abolitionist lecturing and ...

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 ...

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. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

To discover everything wrong with the Gipper, we have to challenge myths from all sides. Editor’s Note “Everything Wrong with the Presidents” series focuses on, as the title suggests, everything each ...

Early anarchist thinkers blurred the line between socialist and capitalist. Libertarians’ interest in anarchism is complicated by anarchism’s historic association with the radical left. Read more ...

Economic history is an interesting if undervalued field often avoided for its dependence on interdisciplinary analysis. Africa’s economic history is especially interesting and undervalued compared to ...

Libertarians frequently disagree about the status of intellectual property. D’Amato explores the views of four major libertarian thinkers. The issue of intellectual property rights represents a ...

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 ...

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 ...

How a group of veterans restored democracy to a small town. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” is a quote commonly, and incorrectly, attributed to Thomas Jefferson. It was, in fact, never ...