In his autobiography we see him as a product of the Age of Enlightenment, a Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe.

Milton Friedman argues that the appropriate role of competitive capitalism occurs when the majority of our economic activity flows through private enterprise within a free market environment.

Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left.

These eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution are recognized as the most important political-science work ever written in the United States.

As a young Yale graduate, Buckley took on the school’s staff, citing their diversion from the tenets on which the institution was built.

Who are the masses? José Ortega y Gasset, one of the intellectual leaders of the Spanish republican government, saw them as the group of people disposed to mediocrity, opposed to excellence, and inclined towards conformed thinking.

This book offers persuasive warnings against the dangers of central planning, along with what Orwell described as “an eloquent defense of laissez-faire capitalism.”

This classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire was first published...

In Adam Smith’s engrossing analysis of the economic facts of life, he introduced such fundamental principles, now referred to as axioms, as the division of labor, supply and demand, and free-market capitalism.