At a time when popular culture too often celebrates life’s negatives, it’s refreshing to witness the flourishing of a musical form that focuses on joy, fun, beauty, and nahenahe.

The romantic composers were an eccentric lot, but even so, Alexander Scriabin is in a world of his own.

Sargent's legacy will forever be cherished by those who long for an art that expresses life as it could and ought to be.

It may seem audacious to spend millions on such fleeting beauty—but it’s emblematic of a society rooted in the “the pursuit of happiness.”

These less-than-obvious gift ideas are likely to provide great enjoyment and have a lasting impact.

Ka‘ahumanu overthrew Hawaii's brutal religion. Tragically, that was not enough. The Hawaiian people, like all people, needed the insights of philosophy.

There is no story quite like that of Sequoyah, who almost single-handedly invented a written form for the language of the largest tribe in America.

The Declaration should be cherished for containing “an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times” that serves as “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.”

More than any of his colleagues, James Madison forged the tools and marshaled the principles necessary to establish a free country—and this achievement justifies the appellation he was too modest to accept: Father of the Constitution.

Examines the development of Douglass's view of what, in principle, an individual must do in order to live as a free, independent human being.

This is the story of Captain James Cook, the greatest navigator and explorer of his age—and perhaps of all time.

Examines two conflicting conceptions of liberty held by various Western intellectuals and cultures in the long trek toward the modern individual rights-based ideal.

Focuses on ways in which America’s founders learned from the Greeks’ mistakes and sought to avoid them in constructing the land of liberty.

Part one of a three-part series examining ways in which ancient Greek philosophers and statesmen influenced the American founders.

Timothy Sandefur masterfully examines and explicates several poems by A. E. Stallings, Stephen Kampa, and Richard Wilbur.