History
History, Politics & Rights
Patrick Henry’s ‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!’ Speech
Robert Begley March 22, 2018
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered one of the most important and dramatic speeches in American history. May Henry’s words live on and inspire all who continue fighting for freedom.
Economics, History
Hamilton’s Bank of New York Put the City Back in Business and the U.S. on the Map
Robert Begley March 13, 2018
If we trace the steps of New York’s rise as the financial capital of the world, we must recognize that establishing the Bank of New York was a pivotal moment in history.
History, Politics & Rights
‘Act Worthy of Yourselves’: Joseph Warren on Defending Liberty
Tom Malone March 6, 2018
"I know you would not turn your faces from your foes, but will, undauntedly, press forward, until tyranny is trodden under foot, and you have fixed your adored goddess Liberty, on the American throne." —Dr. Joseph Warren
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, History, Politics & Rights
William F. Buckley: Cowardly, Dishonest, Unjust, Racist, and Loved by Conservatives
Craig Biddle February 27, 2018
On the anniversary of William F. Buckley’s death, conservatives will spend the week pretending that he was a man of principle, civility, dignity. He was not.
History, Politics & Rights
Happy Birthday, George Washington!
Jon Hersey February 22, 2018
Washington recognized that we must choose daily to support freedom. Otherwise, we lose it, bit by bit, to those who favor force and tyranny.
History
Robert Ingersoll: Intellectual and Moral Atlas
Tom Malone February 21, 2018
A portrait of the great 19th-century intellectual who held that “Reason is the light, the sun, of the brain . . . the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star.”
History, Philosophy
Self-Made Men
Frederick Douglass February 21, 2018
Frederick Douglass’s speech on the virtues of “men who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.”
History, Philosophy
Frederick Douglass’s Vision of Manhood
Timothy Sandefur February 21, 2018
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.
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews
RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance by Don Watkins
Jon Hersey January 24, 2018
RooseveltCare makes clear that resolving the debt crisis by ending the entitlement state is imperative both morally and practically.
History, Politics & Rights
‘It Was Time for Every Man to Stir’: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Jon Hersey January 10, 2018
Even after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, many Americans held that the colonies would reconcile peacefully with Britain. Paine explained otherwise.