Wendy McElroy

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America. The...

This presentation discusses two political documents that have changed history: Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract.In...

From Philo of Judea to Maimonides and beyond, Medieval Jewish philosophy created an outstanding, unbroken tradition. Jewish thinkers worked to square...

This island was once a clearing house for importing slaves into the New World. It later became one of the world's few remaining bastions of Marxism,...

This presentation examines two eloquent arguments for human liberty: John Stuart Mill's On Liberty and Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of...

Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience: the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau's concept is...

Saving, budgeting, and investing are keys to creating wealth-but there are many different philosophies about how to approach this essential task. The...

China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed. The central...

A cluster of five countries; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations...

Germany is historically one of the most important of all nations. Since emerging from its days as a Roman province, Germany (including Prussia) has had a...

The ';isle of poets and scholars' has known almost constant warfare for centuries. In 1920, it was divided into North and South. Yet this purely political...

India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Though both Buddhism and Jainism began in India, its primary influence is the Vedic...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had evolved from a British colony into an international power. As a result of the Spanish-American...

In 1540, Mexico was declared to be New Spain. With a diverse culture and great natural resources, it should have prospered like its northern neighbor. But...

In 1895 Cuba began its struggle for independence from Spain-a struggle that resulted in a demand for US involvement. This demand gained intensity when the...

World War II reshaped the map of the world. No longer would Europe be the center of world power. As the continent exhausted itself in yet another war, two...

This is the story of a war during which one American president was assassinated, another declined to seek reelection, and a third was discredited. It is the...

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a slashing attack on the French Revolution by one of Britain's most famous statesmen. Liberty and social order,...

From 1861 to 1865 America was caught in the convulsions of warThe Civil War. No historical event, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply...