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Government is not the parent, but the child of the American people, Timothy Sandefur says, and should not impede liberty.

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

The Rev. Byron Williams on the radical ideas of liberty and equality and why the United States must confront both its promise ...

Pulitzer winner Joseph J. Ellis on the American Revolution’s radical ideas and why slavery and Native policy remain the ...

Sarah Thomas evaluates Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in light of the American Founding’s 250th anniversary, emphasizing ...

Is America backsliding on liberty, equality? Editor: What is it that has made America great? I believe that the lofty and unusual ideals of liberty and equality are the hallmarks of this nation.

(The Conversation) — Shortly before midnight on May 23, 1798, highwaymen just north of Dublin intercepted and set on fire a mail coach headed to Belfast. It was the signal meant to ignite revolution ...

Sixteen months before Thomas Jefferson crafted the powerful words that would become our Declaration of Independence, he sat quietly in Richmond's St. John's Church, absorbing the oratory of Patrick ...

As with much polling, the devil is in the conveniently omitted details. Once every week or two, I get a press release about the Equality Act. The theme is consistent: This bill is popular. Americans ...

Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” stands apart as one of dystopian literature’s most poignant works, making up for its brevity in striking social commentary. The tale is set in the ...

In this new translation of Raymond Aron’s last university lecture, delivered in 1978, France’s most renowned Cold War–era liberal thinker grandly reflects on the concept of liberty in Western ...