The film is set in Naderi’s hometown of Abadan, a major port city on the Persian Gulf near the Iraqi border. Because of its ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s ...

Banneker showed that the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence were not abstract notions but claims that ...

The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...

Erik Matson reflects on John Callanan’s new book about Bernard Mandeville, and the controversial theories that he promoted in ...

It is highly likely that Hume and Smith were acquainted with speciation. Here we suggest that Hume and Smith were proto-​Darwinian on human evolution. The idea of Hume and Smith as discreet ...

English monarchs used revenues from corporate charters to work around parliamentary control of the power to tax. What the monarch giveth, the monarch may taketh away- - Such was the way of the world ...

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. Miles Smith IV ...

Saul Zimet is a Website and Data Coordinator for Human Progress .org at the Cato Institute and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New ...