Saint Augustine There is an ancient saying, attributed to Aesop: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” The comparison between government and robbery is often ...

Brian Mandeville is a fourth- year PhD Student at George Mason University, a PhD Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and a student fellow with the Adam Smith Program at George Mason University. He also ...

“Woman shall be free…to the use of her maternal functions in spite of law or priest…though it rock the nations from centre to circumference.” Originally delivered as a lecture at Jackson, Michigan (14 ...

An ardent abolitionist and supporter of the women's suffrage movement, William Lloyd Garrison is perhaps best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the ...

Raised since early childhood to promote Jeremy Bentham's theory of utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill both expanded on those ideas and developed many of his own regarding individual freedom and liberty.