Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School delivered the eighth of AEI’s 1997-1998 Bradley Lectures on April 13. An edited excerpt follows. Many forms of common property are ...

Individual liberty will not find a secure home in a world where this resentment prevails. What the original Constitution and Bill of Rights had to say about individual liberty is a far cry from what ...

John B. Egger (letters, Dec. 26) writes that he was amused by Susan Wojcicki’s Dec. 17 op-ed, which touted the benefits of paid maternity leave. I was not amused by Prof. Egger’s assertion, “That the ...

Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. What happens when liberty is suppressed, whether ...

Liberty and its institutions In the 1950s, Hayek’s interest centered on the political and social ideas and ideals upon which a free society is based, and without which such a free society is not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some people today are inclined to pose an opposition between the “common good” and individual liberty. There may sometimes be ...

The connection between individual liberty and the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be obvious. After all, the most famous passage in the Declaration states that all men have the ...

Like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment denies government power to abridge individual rights. While in England under an unwritten constitution, seditious libel prosecution and disarmament are ...

Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. What happens when liberty is suppressed, whether ...