Many young conservatives favor markets and reject social intolerance without embracing an ideologically libertarian position.

Not all arguments in support of free speech are good ones.

When the American revolutionaries declared their independence, it was founded on a solid thousand years of English history.

For the Ostroms, the key insight was that we need to find ways to encourage collective action so as to avoid the need for coercion.

In an economic system characterized by consumer sovereignty, people’s values determine the outcomes markets deliver.

The common slogan that we must “get money out of politics”, when referring to campaign finance laws, has it backwards.

Krugman’s analysis of a 70% marginal tax rate forgets about consumer surplus, deadweight loss, & the difference between marginal & total value.

Anoba’s second of three pieces covers Egypt’s powerful southern neighbor(s): Nubia and Kush.

The paternalistic welfare state has failed to create a reliable social safety net. Decentralized, voluntary institutions can do the job better.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with mixing our social lives with business. The devil’s in the details.

Originalism in all its various forms has been a pretense for defending one’s preferred legal conclusions.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s political philosophy and feminist thought were shaped by her beliefs about human nature.

England’s Magna Carta enshrined fundamental rights and liberties in the western legal tradition—but how was the Charter created and why?

Free markets are base requirements for complex and developing civilizations. In this new series, Ibrahim Anoba surveys the evidence from ancient Africa.