The Reading Room
On Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke is the founder of modern conservatism, and the strange thing about him is that he defended the American Revolution and condemned the French one, and thought he was...
On Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke is the founder of modern conservatism, and the strange thing about him is that he defended the American Revolution and condemned the French one, and thought he was...
On Areopagitica
Before there was a First Amendment, before there was a United States, there was Areopagitica.
On Areopagitica
Before there was a First Amendment, before there was a United States, there was Areopagitica.
On The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations is the most cited and least read book in economics, and the gap between the two has produced a caricature that would have startled its author.
On The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations is the most cited and least read book in economics, and the gap between the two has produced a caricature that would have startled its author.
On The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is the most consequential pamphlet of the modern era after Common Sense, and it belongs on any honest shelf about the political idea, whatever you make of...
On The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is the most consequential pamphlet of the modern era after Common Sense, and it belongs on any honest shelf about the political idea, whatever you make of...
On Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin drew a single distinction that organizes the whole modern argument about freedom, and once you have it, you hear it everywhere.
On Two Concepts of Liberty
Isaiah Berlin drew a single distinction that organizes the whole modern argument about freedom, and once you have it, you hear it everywhere.
On The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom during the Second World War, and his argument was unwelcome to almost everyone who read it: that central economic planning, however well intended,...
On The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom during the Second World War, and his argument was unwelcome to almost everyone who read it: that central economic planning, however well intended,...