Jeannette Rankin was her generation’s most passionate voice against war, a suffragist, reformer, and relentless advocate for peace. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, remains one ...

“The agitation of all reforms is useful and necessary, but…the reform of reforms, is that which will restore to woman her natural right of self- ownership.” Harman’s bristly response argues first that ...

Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government. There is, I fear, no time like the present to remind ourselves of ...

In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow- governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves. For our final number, we turn to Spooner’s ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Brian Doherty, author of Modern Libertarianism, published by Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2025. Jonathan Fortier is the director of Lib er tar i an ism .org. Over the past ...

Our author puts forth a romanticized, mythologized version of history to defend the claim that love is the result of imagination, inequality, and difference. Godwin’s thoughts on the nature of ...

Godwin’s next “thought on man” examines the origins of mental atrophy and urges readers to exercise their minds with steady and vigorous Socratic discussion. One of the prerogatives by which man is ...

Godwin recognizes the “obviousness” of voting and representation in the modern era, but carefully notes that democracy is no solution to the problem of coercion. For his next essay, Godwin returns to ...

One of the most well-known founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. The ideas of liberty he promoted are a foundational part of America's ...