Sarah Skwire
b. 1971
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow and Director of Communications at Liberty Fund, Inc. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She has written regularly for outlets like Econlog, AdamSmithWorks, and the Reading Room, as well as for the now defunct Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog. Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in several edited volumes and in Cato Unbound. She teaches regularly for the Tikvah Fund, and has enjoyed guesting for podcasts on topics from science fiction to Charles Dickens to the importance of literature to a free society. She graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago.
In The Reading Room:
- Madame de Stael: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Adventures of Marco Polo: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Essays of Elia: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Odyssey: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Science of Dining: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Works of Machiavelli: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Lady and the Tycoon: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Virtual Reading Group: The House of Mirth and Adam Smith ()
- Miracles: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Letters from Ireland: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Trollope's Belgium and West Germany: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Men and Snakes: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Pilgrim's Progress: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- John Toland's Tetradymus: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- De Motu Cordis: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Happy Birthday Joseph Schumpeter! ()
- Hobbes Translation of Thucydides: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Translations from the Chinese: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Darwin's The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Voltaire's A Philosophical Dictionary: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- A Dissertation upon Parties: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Christmas Tales From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Deadweight Loss of the Magi ()
- Tales and Maxims from the Talmud: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Milton's Poetry and Prose: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- The Screwtape Letters: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Thanksgiving Greetings from the Reading Room ()
- A Toast: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Antigone: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Hume's History of England: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Faust: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Tai Shang Kan-Ying Pien: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Johnson's Dictionary: From the Liberty Fund Rare Book Room ()
- Brought to the Scaffold": Pepys, Smith, and Voltaire on Public Executions ()
- Exploring Sandman at the OLL ()
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Horror ()
- Something New for Shakespeare at the OLL ()
- April is the Cruellest Month: A Reading List on Taxation ()
- Political Animals: Hesiod's Hawk and Nightingale ()
- Property and Justice: An OLL Book Discussion ()
- Hearts and Flowers ()
- In Praise of the Long Read ()
- The Law and the Lady: A Book Discussion ()
- History on Film: Sifting Through the Past ()
- Virginia Woolf in the Modern Art Museum: Marginalia of One’s Own ()
- Two Christmas Stories by Dickens: A Discussion ()
- Our Thanksgiving Menu at the Reading Room ()
- Loki, Marvel, and Snorre Sturlason: The Weirdness of the World ()
- Female Friendship and Grady Hendrix's Horror ()
- Discussing Milton ()
- Luxury and Literature in Shakespeare and Mandeville: Too Much of a Good Thing ()