Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Channing, a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson, argues that in the nature of property rights, human beings cannot be the property of others.

Childs argues that Rand’s Objectivism logically implies support for anarchism, not for a single state that can exclude competitors within its territory.

In the first part of the Democratic Review ’s peek into the private life of American bank directors and fund managers, the anonymous author introduced the story’s narrator and hero (of sorts). Our ...

“Thou sweet dictator of the human breast, as soon as we lose sight of thee, we forfeit our happiness here as well as hereafter.” Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

Caroline Breashears is professor of English at St. Lawrence University. Her publications include The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy and the Theatre (Edinburgh University ...

Tocqueville warns of the dangers from a nurturing government “extending its arm over the whole community.” I had remarked during my stay in the United States that a democratic state of society, ...

Some abolitionists saw the state as complicit in slavery and tried to fight slavery without its help. The antislavery movement, while extremely humble in its origins and slow in its growth, steadily ...

Wollstonecraft argues the case for women’s rights entirely in libertarian terms of equal and natural rights.

In this excerpt from Democracy in America, Tocqueville examines the decentralized, voluntary associations he found throughout the United States.

Tocqueville discusses the ways that self- interest disciplines people in the habits of regularity, temperance, moderation, foresight, and self- command.