Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved African who bought his freedom, became one of the most influential voices in the transatlantic abolitionist movement. Born in west Africa and kidnapped into slavery at age ...

Jonathan Fortier and Bryan Caplan discuss the reissue of Open Borders, and the thorny issues surrounding immigration. An openly nerdy man who loves role- playing games and graphic novels, he lives in ...

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author.

In which a perfectly normal law firm is unexpectedly disrupted by one of modernity’s strangest byproducts: a copyist named Bartleby. “Bartleby” begins with a general introduction from the narrator, ...

In this excerpt from an 1883 speech, Sumner discusses the nature of liberty and the implications of the transition from a status- based society to one based on contract. William Graham Sumner held a ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Bruce Pardy, Professor of Law at Queen’s University and Executive Director of Rights Probe. Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, ...

To commemorate the 175th anniversary of Frédéric Bastiat’s libertarian classic The Law, we delve into Bastiat’s intellectual legacy. There is perhaps no writer better at articulating the economic way ...

Bruce Pardy is professor of law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and executive director of Rights Probe, a law and liberty thinktank. He is an academic, lawyer, columnist, and ...

“To my mind the law is not our worst enemy. … Religious bigotry, marital jealousy, social prejudice, will operate in ostracism, contempt…and actual violence.” From Emil F. Ruedebusch, Mayville, Wis., ...

Madison attempts to allay concerns about the expansion of federal powers under the Constitution. One of the more well-known founding fathers, James Madison was the primary author of the U.S.

Eisenhower’s prescient speech coined the term “military- industrial complex” to describe a then- new feature of American society: a standing military force interwoven with a network of private defense ...

Eisenhower’s prescient speech coined the term “military- industrial complex” to describe a then- new feature of American society: a standing military force interwoven with a network of private defense ...