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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A history of the people and institutions that revived and championed the classical liberal tradition in America after the end of World War II. In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a ...

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 ...

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 ...