History

Harvard professor Steven Pinker lays out a powerful case for cultural optimism in his book Enlightenment Now.

After reason had been smothered during the Dark and Middle Ages, Prince Henry helped to light the world with knowledge.

Hastings delivers well-founded judgments about war in prose that brings to life the experiences of those who fought them.

For all his pessimism, Conrad held that a life of unfaltering conviction is a meaningful one.

This self-made immigrant helped make the Revolution possible, then laid the foundation for America’s essentially capitalist financial policies.

By refusing to give in to injustice, Parks sparked not only the Montgomery bus boycott but the American Civil Rights movement as such, which would go on to topple the legal support of racial discrimination in the United States.

Some call national parks “America’s best idea.” In truth, public lands of any type are antithetical to what is truly America’s best idea: individual rights.

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

This little-known founder not only articulated the ideas of America's revolution, he was intimately involved in putting those ideas into practice.

November 9 and the opening of East German borders will forever mark a triumph for freedom and a reminder of the horrors of collectivism.