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

Though the son of a freed slave and self‐​educated, Daniel Murray became a highly‐​regarded archivist at the Library of Congress and joined the ranks of a growing Black elite in Washington, DC.

Allocating goods by ability and willingness to pay isn’t a perfect method of distribution, but it has important advantages over the alternatives.

Horwitz reviews The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel, an economic history of the textile industry.

The fascinating story of the black painters who painted vivid Florida landscapes and defied Jim Crow segregation.

For Aristotle private property was about more than economic gains.

A man is no freer because his own countrymen oppress him.

By the mid‐​20^th century, forty‐​one states had passed legislation that criminalized interracial relationships. The ban on what was then known as “miscegenation” was an overt expression of white supremacy.

The concept of animals rights is often ignored by libertarians but libertarian principles often point towards a duty to respect both human’s and animal’s rights.

The parable of the two arrows helps us understand why our politics seems so broken and harmful, and how we can fix it.

Ammon Hennacy believed he had a duty as a Christian to help others directly and to oppose the state.

The skills of a good liberal historian cannot be understated.

When we change the rules so that people’s freedom to innovate is no longer restricted, they can discover new and better approaches that might have been impossible before.

Although black porters on Pullman train cars endured racial prejudice and tough working conditions, they used it as an opportunity to foment support for civil rights and to put their families on the next rung of the economic ladder.

Sumner worried that an unaccountable elite had taken control of the American political system, hollowing out the meaning of voting and citizenship.

Liberalism has no standing in academic history and that few historians recognize a distinctly liberal approach to writing history.