Patrick O'Brien

Liberty Matters:

• Did the American Colonies Pay Too High a Cost for Revolution? (August/September 2023)
• Adam Smith's Emergent Rules of Justice (June/July 2023)
• The Roman Senate in Early Modern Europe (May 2023)
• Did we have a Constitutional Revolution but not reconstruct the South? (April 2023)
• Why Do We Need Feminist Economics? (March 2023)
• Is there a Role for Monarchy in a Free Society (January/February 2023)
• Why Read the Ancients Today? (November/December 2022)
• Systemic Racism in Education and Healthcare (October 2022)
• Perspectives on Mises' Socialism After 100 Years (August 2022)
• The Constitutional Convention and the Peculiar Institution (July 2022)
• Is Machiavelli Friend or Foe to Liberty? (May 2022)
• Why History Matters for 21st Century Liberty (April 2022)
• Remember the Ladies: The Fight for Equality among the Genders (March 2022)
• What Does Liberty Have to Say to Black History? (February 2022)
• The Legacy of Walter Williams (January 2022)
• What Adam Smith Means to Me (November 2021)
• Mustafa Akyol, Liberty was Islam's First Call (October 2021)
• John Locke on Commercial Society (September 2021)
• David French, "Can American Liberty Survive American Animosity?" (August 2021)
• Understanding Jefferson: Slavery, Race, and the Declaration of Independence (July 2021)
• Liberty and Virtue: Frank Meyer's Fusionism (June 2021)
• Humboldt’s State – and Ours (May 2021)
• Daniel B. Klein, "Meanings of Liberty: Aron, Constant, Berlin" (April 2021)
• Keith E. Whittington, "John C. Calhoun, Constitutionalism, and Slavery" (March 2021)
• Reflections on Libraries, Liberty, and Black History (February 2021)
• Judge Glock, "Albert Venn Dicey and the Immunity of the Administrative State" (December 2020)
• Mikko Tolonen, Mandeville, Hayek, and the Politics of Self-Esteem (October 2020)
• Ruth Scurr, "J.S. Mill & Life Writing" (August 2020)
• Sarah Morgan Smith, “To Covenant and Combine Ourselves into a Civil Body Politic”: The Mayflower Compact @ 400 Years (May 2020)
• Daniel B. Klein, "Smith, Hume, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives" (March 2020)
• Adam J. Macleod, "Bagehot and the Causes of Our Crises" (January 2020)
• Stephen Davies, "The Levellers and the Emergence of (Some) Modern Political Ideas" (November 2019)
• Carlo Lottieri, "Exchanges, Claims, and Powers: About Bruno Leoni's Social Theory" (September 2019)
• Phillip W. Magness, “William Leggett: Free Trade, Hard Money, and Abolitionism” (July 2019)
• David M. Hart, "Reassessing Bastiat's *Economic Harmonies* after 160 Years" (May 2019)
• Aurelian Craiutu, “How to Combat Fanaticism and the Spirit of Party: Germaine de Staël’s Lesson" (March 2019)
• Matthew McCaffrey, “Frank Fetter and the Austrian Tradition in the United States” (January 2019)
• Alberto Mingardi, “Liberty and Cynicism: Was Vilfredo Pareto a Liberal?” (November 2018)
• Virgil Storr, "Marx and the Morality of Capitalism" (October 2018)
• Peter Lewin, "Ludwig Lachmann – Enigmatic and Controversial Austrian Economist" (July 2018)
• Alan Kahan, "Limited Government, Unlimited Liberalism. Or, How Benjamin Constant was a Kantian After All" (May 2018)
• Henry C. Clark, "How Radical Was the Political Thought of the Encyclopédie?" (March 2018)
• Nicholas Capaldi, "The Place of Liberty in David Hume's Project" (January 2018)
• Peter Boettke, "Gordon Tullock and the Rational Choice Commitment" (November 2017)
• Peter Boettke, "Hayek's Epistemic Liberalism" (September 2017)
• Matt Zwolinski, "William Graham Sumner – Liberty's Forgotten Man" (July 2017)
• Nicholas Buccola, “Frederick Douglass on the Right and Duty to Resist” (May 2017)
• Peter J. Boettke, "Israel M. Kirzner on Competitive Behavior, Industrial Structure, and the Entrepreneurial Market Process" (March 2017)
• Knud Haakonssen, "Pufendorf on Power and Liberty" (January 2017)
• David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (November 2016)
• David Womersley, "John Trenchard and the Opposition to Standing Armies" (September 2016)
• John E. Alvis, “The Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare's Plays" (July 2016)
• Jacob T. Levy, "Rationalism, Pluralism, and the History of Liberal Ideas" (May 2016)
• Sanford Ikeda,"The Misesian Paradox: Interventionism Is Not Sustainable" (March 2016)
• Randy E. Barnett, “The Significance of Lysander Spooner” (January 2016)
• Henry C. Clark, "Montesquieu on Liberty and Sumptuary Law" (November 2015)
• Hartmut Kliemt, "Anthony de Jasay and the Political Economy of the State" (September 2015)
• Steven Kates, "Reassessing the Political Economy of John Stuart Mill" (July 2015)
• Justin Champion, "Magna Carta after 800 Years: From liber homo to modern freedom." (May 2015)
• Richard M. Ebeling, “Assessing Böhm-Bawerk's Contribution to Economics after a Hundred Years” (April 2015)
• David M. Hart, "On the Spread of (Classical) Liberal Ideas" (March 2015)
• Stephen Davies, "Richard Cobden: Ideas and Strategies in Organizing the Free-Trade Movement in  Britain" (January 2015)
• George H. Smith, "Herbert Spencer's Sociology of the State" (November 2014)
• Sandra Peart, "James Mill on Liberty and Governance" (September 2014)
• Donald J. Boudreaux, "Deirdre McCloskey and Economists’ Ideas about Ideas" (July 2014)
• Aurelian Craiutu, "Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited" (May 2014)
• Fernando R. Tesón, “Hugo Grotius on War and the State” (March 2014)
• Lawrence White, "Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit at 101" (January 2014)
• John Blundell, "Arthur Seldon and the Institute of Economic Affairs" (November 2013)
• George H. Smith, "The System of Liberty" (September 2013)
• Robert Leroux, "Bastiat and Political Economy" (July 2013)
• Roderick Long, "Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty" (May 2013)
• Geoffrey Brennan, "James Buchanan: An Assessment" (March 2013)
• Eric Mack on "John Locke on Property" (January 2013)