Hazlitt as a Thinker

Henry Hazlitt was not only a prolific writer, he also succeeded at it early in life. In an unpublished autobiography, Hazlitt recalls that before landing his job at the Wall Street Journal in 1913, at the age of about 18, he finished writing his first book, “with the modest title” Thinking as a Science. He [...]

Capitalism: Discrimination’s Implacable Enemy

John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press), from which this article is adapted. Do racial minorities, women, and other groups need the government to protect them against prejudice and discrimination? To hear [...]

Frederick Douglass: Heroic Orator for Liberty

Frederick Douglass made himself the most compelling witness to the evils of slavery and prejudice.

He suffered as his master broke up his family. He endured whippings and beatings. In the antebellum South, it was illegal to teach slaves how to read and write, but Douglass learned anyway, and he secretly educated other slaves. After he escaped to freedom, he tirelessly addressed antislavery meetings throughout the North and the British Isles for more than two decades.

Private Prejudice, Private Remedy

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). There may be no more politically contentious issue than race. The federal government has created a vast racial spoils system that often [...]