Walker Haskins is a consultant with AIER’s visiting research fellowship program and was previously a program assistant at AIER. Walker is presently pursuing graduate coursework in social science ...

In this article, B. R. Shenoy —one of India’s most prominent free- market economists—talks about the differences in the economic models followed by East and West Germany. Shenoy, a key critic of state ...

An episode interviewing Matt Zwolinski about the life and thought of Joseph Hiam Levy, a late nineteenth- century British philosopher and member of the Personal Rights Association.

Until his retirement, Steven Farron was a professor of classics. In addition to publications on Homer, Vergil, and Horace, he has written a book, The Affirmative Action Hoax, and a monograph, ...

Steven Farron offers an unorthodox and challenging interpretation of Ayn Rand’s presentation of capitalism.

Despite differences over tactics, American Progressivism and Italian Fascism shared commitments to a transcendant “People” and the all- powerful “Nation.” The Progressive Party, one of several ...

In this context, Frances Whipple (“A Rhode Islander”) wrote to New York newspaper editor Levi D. Slamm on the distressing affair and what many- - including Whipple- - saw blossoming into a wide- ...

Channing, a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson, argues that in the nature of property rights, human beings cannot be the property of others.

Childs argues that Rand’s Objectivism logically implies support for anarchism, not for a single state that can exclude competitors within its territory.

In the first part of the Democratic Review ’s peek into the private life of American bank directors and fund managers, the anonymous author introduced the story’s narrator and hero (of sorts). Our ...

“Cashier in trouble,--circulation above a million- - gold and silver coin in vaults of too small an amount to be mentioned except to particular friends.” The United States Magazine & Democratic Review ...

Some abolitionists saw the state as complicit in slavery and tried to fight slavery without its help. The antislavery movement, while extremely humble in its origins and slow in its growth, steadily ...