It is highly likely that Hume and Smith were acquainted with speciation. Here we suggest that Hume and Smith were ...

During the year of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Paul Meany reflects on how the American Declaration ...

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights that would pre-​date not only the state, but also societies themselves. One ...

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 ...

Grant Babcock was a philosophy and policy editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org. His interests include nonviolent action, epistemology of the social sciences, social contract theories and criticisms ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

Vincent Geloso is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Du Grand Rattrapage au ...

Alex Nowrasteh makes compelling evidence- based counter arguments to the most common objections to immigration. From “immigrants are going to take American jobs” to “they’re going to commit crimes” or ...

Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project of the Cato Institute. Most of his work focuses on examining thinkers who predate classical liberalism but ...

Free trade means the exchange of goods and services across international borders, unhindered by government tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions. Since the publication of The Wealth of Nations by ...