“Woman shall be free…to the use of her maternal functions in spite of law or priest…though it rock the nations from centre to circumference.” Originally delivered as a lecture at Jackson, Michigan (14 ...

Francisco de Victoria was a Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian who lived during the Spanish Renaissance. He is the founder of the School of Salamanca and was pivotal in shaping the conversation ...

This documentary examines the intellectual life and legacy of F. A. Hayek, 50 years after he won the Nobel Prize.

The 16th- century philosopher and theologian Francisco de Vitoria defended economic liberty as a moral right. The 16th- century Dominican theologian Francisco de Vitoria has been hailed as the father ...

Rhode Island’s Quaker deputy- governor desperately seeks peace while Puritan expansionists see only opportunity. John Easton was born in Hampshire, England in 1624. His mother died while John was ...

Raised since early childhood to promote Jeremy Bentham's theory of utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill both expanded on those ideas and developed many of his own regarding individual freedom and liberty.

Like many of us, Condorcet got a bit carried away with praise for the Enlightenment. Unlike many of us, he tempered it with a dose of realism. Yet all the same, even with such an impressive, ...

John Dickinson led an active political life. He was a member of the Continental Congress, served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1785, and was a member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

“O! Thomas, you have had a long nap, and spent a great number of years in ease & plenty, upon our hard earned property.” Our burdens are heavy & call loud for justice! call loud for mercy! I Therefore ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with John Dalton about his recent book, Creative Destruction, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2024. He first encountered Schumpeter as a teenage reader of Capitalism, ...

Madison discusses how a large, republican government can mitigate the effects of factions. One of the more well-known founding fathers, James Madison was the primary author of the U.S. Constitution, ...