The philosophy of the modern state contained in Reflections made people rethink what it meant to be a Whig.
Mercy Otis Warren wanted her countrymen to remember the terrible burden of being unfree.
Hume was a quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters, as evidenced by his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.
The real history of America's political pulpit defies simple categorization, but is essential to understanding our nation's past.
Why we should remember Russell Kirk's John Randolph of Roanoke.
Taylor believed the rhetoric of economic and national greatness—"borrowed from the fallacious European theories" of empire—was deadly to a republic.
A new compilation of an old British debate sheds light on what makes armies safe for liberty.
No strictly political community brings political salvation.
Despite Calhoun’s flaws, he was able to use his long career in tumultuous times to develop rare insight into the nature of constitutional government.
Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.
The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman stands among the classics of Anglo-American intellectual history.
Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.
Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.
We tend to think of George Washington as the Marble Man, whom all admired and none opposed—Marshall's sober history complicates this view.