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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty The Legacy of Walter Williams (January 2022)

In December of 2020, the world lost a leading light in modern economics, Walter Williams. Williams was that rare breed of economist who can also rightly be considered a public intellectual. Through his syndicated columns, talk radio appearances, lectures and his many books for the popular press, Williams was a premier explicator of the principles of economics. These same principles led Williams...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Catharine Macaulay supported the French Revolution because there were sound "public choice" reasons for not vesting supreme power in the hands of one's social or economic "betters" (1790)

Catharine Macaulay, the English republican historian, was one of the first to criticize Burke’s opposition to the French Revolution. She argued that there were sound “public choice” reasons for not vesting supreme power in the hands of one’s social or economic “betters”:

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power William Blake: An Introduction

Related Links in the Goodrich Seminar Room: Job Related Links: William Blake Collections: Religion Collections: Art Source: William Blake, Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job. With Descriptive Letterpress, and A Sketch of the Artist’s Life and Works. By Charles Eliot Norton (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875). Chapter: INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE AND WO...