History
History, Politics & Rights
Magna Carta: English Roots of American Liberty
Carrie-Ann Biondi June 14, 2015
Drafted eight-hundred years ago, the Magna Carta was a major step toward the conception and implementation of properly limited government.
Good Living, History, Reviews
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Kirk Barbera May 21, 2015
A review of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
Arts & Culture, History, Reviews
The Imitation Game
Ari Armstrong May 21, 2015
A review of The Imitation Game.
History, Politics & Rights
Lessons of the Armenian Genocide
Andrew Bernstein May 21, 2015
Examines the history of and motive behind this underreported atrocity, finding the cause to be a combination of mysticism (Islam) and collectivism (racism).
History, Politics & Rights, Reviews
America: Imagine the World Without Her
Ari Armstrong November 20, 2014
Ari Armstrong reviews America: Imagine the World Without Her, by Dinesh D'Souza.
History
In Honor of the U.S. Constitution and the Men Who Created It
Robert Begley September 17, 2014
On September 17, 1787, the Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution, laying the foundation for the first nation in history based on the recognition of the inalienable rights of man.
History
Letters to the Editor, Fall 2014
TOS Admin August 20, 2014
Regarding “Getting Lincoln Right” To the Editor: I would like to congratulate Alexander Marriott on his well-written and illuminating article “Getting Lincoln Right” [TOS Summer 2014]. Mr. Marriott eloquently addresses the most common moral and historical fallacies that are used to smear the legacy of a man who, in my…
History, Politics & Rights
What to Celebrate on Independence Day
Craig Biddle July 4, 2014
America came as close as any society has ever come to establishing an exclusively rights-protecting government. Americans were almost fully free to live their own lives, by their own judgment, for their own sake. This is the moral ideal we should embrace and redouble our efforts to achieve.
History, Politics & Rights
Auberon Herbert: Advocate of Reason, Individual Rights, and Limited Government
Craig Biddle June 26, 2014
Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was a 19th-century British political philosopher and a member of Parliament, who recognized that each individual has inalienable rights to direct his own mind and body, and to keep and use the product of his own effort. In defense of these rights, Herbert advocated a strictly limited, voluntarily funded, rights-protecting government.
History
Lincoln and Race
Alexander V. Marriott May 29, 2014
Despite his retrospective missteps, Lincoln repeatedly responded to Douglas’s racist tauntings by turning back to his avowed purpose in the election—to remind voters that “the old principle of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison” was that slavery was wrong and should be placed on a path to extinction.