Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

Caleb Petitt is a Research Associate for the Independent Institute, where he researches historical political economy, history of economic thought, and trade. He holds a PhD in economics from George ...

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

Born in Dandridge, Tennessee, John Rankin was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who moved to Ripley, Ohio in 1822 and became the state’s first and most active “conductor” on the ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate ...

In Stockbridge Cemetery, Massachusetts, there is a plot known as “Sedgwick Pie,” due to its unusual circular shape. The plot centers around Theodore and Pamela Sedgwick’s graves, with their children ...

V.1.191. In the church of Rome, the industry and zeal of the inferior clergy are*139 kept more alive by the powerful motive of self- interest than perhaps in any established protestant church. The ...

By Levi D. Slamm. New York Daily Plebeian, 11 April 1844. The Oregon dispute promises to be one of the most vexed subjects that we have had to settle with Great Britain[,] perhaps not less tangled ...