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 ...

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

During a time when enslaved Americans sought freedom through escape, Elizabeth Freeman challenged her legal status as ...

The superior- inferior jural relationship is the governor- governed relationship, or the ruler- ruled relationship—at least in the modern integrated polity in which we speak of “the government.” The ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023).The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate ...

Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th- century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences. His contributions to economics highlighted the ...

V.1.191. In the church of Rome, the industry and zeal of the inferior clergy are*139 kept more alive by the powerful motive of self- interest than perhaps in any established protestant church. The ...

By Levi D. Slamm. New York Daily Plebeian, 11 April 1844. The Oregon dispute promises to be one of the most vexed subjects that we have had to settle with Great Britain[,] perhaps not less tangled ...