History
Arts & Culture, History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Reviews
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Timothy Sandefur April 17, 2019
Harvard professor Steven Pinker lays out a powerful case for cultural optimism in his book Enlightenment Now.
History
Prince Henry Launched the Age of Discovery
Robert Begley March 14, 2019
After reason had been smothered during the Dark and Middle Ages, Prince Henry helped to light the world with knowledge.
Arts & Culture, History
Max Hastings and the Tragedy of War
Timothy Sandefur March 6, 2019
Hastings delivers well-founded judgments about war in prose that brings to life the experiences of those who fought them.
Arts & Culture, History, Politics & Rights
Joseph Conrad: No Faltering, No Shame, No Regret
Timothy Sandefur February 13, 2019
For all his pessimism, Conrad held that a life of unfaltering conviction is a meaningful one.
History
Robert Morris: America’s Financial Atlas
Robert Begley January 26, 2019
This self-made immigrant helped make the Revolution possible, then laid the foundation for America’s essentially capitalist financial policies.
Biographies, History, Politics & Rights
The Moral Courage of Rosa Parks
Jon Hersey November 29, 2018
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.
History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Public Land’s Collectivist Roots
Jon Hersey November 20, 2018
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.
History, Philosophy
The Need for Philosophy in the Islands of the Blessed
Timothy Sandefur November 20, 2018
Ka‘ahumanu overthrew Hawaii's brutal religion. Tragically, that was not enough. The Hawaiian people, like all people, needed the insights of philosophy.
History, Politics & Rights
Dr. Joseph Warren: Architect of the Revolution
Tom Malone November 10, 2018
This little-known founder not only articulated the ideas of America's revolution, he was intimately involved in putting those ideas into practice.
History
Remember, Remember, the Ninth of November
Jon Hersey November 8, 2018
November 9 and the opening of East German borders will forever mark a triumph for freedom and a reminder of the horrors of collectivism.