Adam Smith

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

The predigital dream of the audiobook.

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

An activist, writer, doctor and intellectual, James McCune Smith, born enslaved, directed his talents to the eradication of slavery.

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.

As 19th century reformers showed, only a healthy workforce can fuel economic prosperity.

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."

To fight back against corporate power, cities have to cooperate, not compete.

Why we pay.

A challenge to the "Standard Model" scholars who hold that the Second Amendment protects individual gun rights.