In this article, B. R. Shenoy —one of India’s most prominent free- market economists—talks about the differences in the economic models followed by East and West Germany. Shenoy, a key critic of state ...

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

Walker Haskins is a consultant with AIER’s visiting research fellowship program and was previously a program assistant at AIER. Walker is presently pursuing graduate coursework in social science ...

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

An episode interviewing Matt Zwolinski about the life and thought of Joseph Hiam Levy, a late nineteenth- century British philosopher and member of the Personal Rights Association.

In this context, Frances Whipple (“A Rhode Islander”) wrote to New York newspaper editor Levi D. Slamm on the distressing affair and what many- - including Whipple- - saw blossoming into a wide- ...

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

Adam Smith was a philosopher and scholar whose most exciting adventure seems to have been getting kidnapped by gypsies when a child. One might be surprised to discover that he owned a copy of the tell ...

Despite differences over tactics, American Progressivism and Italian Fascism shared commitments to a transcendant “People” and the all- powerful “Nation.” The Progressive Party, one of several ...

Until his retirement, Steven Farron was a professor of classics. In addition to publications on Homer, Vergil, and Horace, he has written a book, The Affirmative Action Hoax, and a monograph, ...

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 ...

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 ...