Justice, Prosperity, Responsibility, Tolerance, Cooperation, and Peace.

The counter‐​majoritarian and anti‐​democratic nature of the federal court system was originally intended to act as a safeguard for the rights of minority groups.

In the pages of Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty, James L. Walker defended a brand of egoism similar to Max Stirner’s.

Madam C.J. Walker was a brilliant, rags‐​to‐​riches entrepreneur who helped thousands of black women improve their lives and challenged racial segregation.

Gaston envisioned a world in which black Americans were sovereign, morally free, and equal.

A just society requires just institutions.

Tolkien’s political views are surprisingly compatible with libertarian philosophy.

The key to thinking like an economist is to ask: Is it worth it? As compared to what?

There are a lot of similarities in the two ideologies’ critiques of power and domination, but great differences in how they view state vs. market power. Yet both can learn from each other.

Locke wanted to prove that the world is not a mere amalgam of violence and arbitrary authority and that there is something that separates a legitimate from an illegitimate government.

Human progress and global enrichment in particular are largely dependent on invention and innovation.

Benjamin Tucker’s individualist anarchist periodical Liberty hosted radical discussions on gender equality in the late 19th century.

Rutherford B. Hayes will forever be remembered as the president who ended Reconstruction. In the process he abandoned the Civil War Republican Party’s commitment to equal rights for the former slaves and doomed them to a century of discrimination and segregation.

Smith was not romantic about political authority.

Milton argued that the state is not some quasi‐​divine entity ordained by God but is instead an organization legitimized by the consent of the governed.

In the wake of the Norman Conquest of England, new institutions arose that would lay the foundations for English, and eventually American, self‐​government.