Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901. The word “up” implies rising from lower to higher. In his writings, Washington frequently ...

Larry Reed revisits “I, Pencil” with reflections on the global market. Economist and historian Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed is president emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end of World War II. In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a ...

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 ...

The right of revolution, according to classical liberal thinkers, is derived from the natural right of self- preservation. Because the purpose of government is to protect individuals against assaults ...

The term pursuit of happiness, which occurs in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence, has attracted the attention of countless scholars over the past two centuries. The phrase differs ...

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 ...

Thomas Paine was one of the first people to argue in favor of what we now refer to as universal basic income. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ism .org, a project ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...