Before leading Virginia’s militia and becoming its first governor, Patrick Henry stood against British rule, including unjust ...

On March 23rd, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed the Second Virginia Convention in favor of mobilizing an armed force against the encroaching British military. Did you know… on March 23rd, 1775, Patrick ...

Timothy Sandefur examines their lives, ideas, and influences in the context of their times. In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson’s The God of the ...

Life in early colonial Virginia was as nasty, brutish, and short as it got for seventeenth- century Englishmen. Very few documents remain from common people for the whole of the seventeenth- century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one’s consent to be governed. Lysander Spooner was never one to respect a piece of unjust legislation. As we ...

In our first selection from The Claims of Labour, Donisthorpe surveys his philosophy, purpose, and method of unifying capitalists and laborers. He was, as I mentioned, quite the odd duck. As the son ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Lloyd supported no institutions or laws, “but an ideal to be realized [as] character will permit by those who freely accept it.” In March 1897, J. William Lloyd, columnist for Moses Harman’s Lucifer, ...