Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

Caleb Petitt is a Research Associate for the Independent Institute, where he researches historical political economy, history of economic thought, and trade. He holds a PhD in economics from George ...

Author of The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father. Caleb’s work has been featured in various outlets including RealClear History, the Washington Examiner ...

An episode interviewing Caleb Franz covering the life of the abolitionist minister John Rankin. From his hilltop home in Ripley, Ohio, Rankin established a safe haven for enslaved people crossing the ...

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

Born in Dandridge, Tennessee, John Rankin was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who moved to Ripley, Ohio in 1822 and became the state’s first and most active “conductor” on the ...

A central figure in Western philosophy, Plato was founder of the Academy in Athens, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Then, I said, let us begin and create in idea a State; and yet the ...

In Stockbridge Cemetery, Massachusetts, there is a plot known as “Sedgwick Pie,” due to its unusual circular shape. The plot centers around Theodore and Pamela Sedgwick’s graves, with their children ...

There are certain nations which have peculiar reasons for cherishing the liberty of the press, independently of the general motives which I have just pointed out. For in certain countries which ...

By Levi D. Slamm New York Daily Plebeian, 11 April 1844 The Oregon dispute promises to be one of the most vexed subjects that we have had to settle with Great Britain [,] perhaps not less tangled than ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023). The conversation explores how a simple coffee shop can illustrate ...