Alexis de Tocqueville never wrote about Japan, but his warnings about democracy, centralization, and soft despotism found an ...

At sixteen, Helmuth Hübener discovered how much information Nazi propaganda concealed from the German people. With a few ...

In this essay, Bill Glod argues against the prosecution of “victimless crimes” like alcohol and drug consumption, gambling, ...

Sarah Thomas evaluates Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in light of the American Founding’s 250th anniversary, emphasizing two underappreciated themes: democracy as providential and conducive to ...

Whether in language, law, or commerce, lasting orders emerge from the bottom up, not from the commands of any distant expert. Five decades ago, a group of deaf Nicaraguan children offered a striking ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Mark Pennington about his new book on Michel Foucault. Mark Pennington is a British political economist and professor of political economy and public policy at King’s ...

Elijah Sisk explores the different meanings of jealousy in the work of Adam Smith and George Washington. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the ...