Inspired by economists in Britain, Frédéric Bastiat explained to his own Government why their initiatives to boost the economy so often fail.

Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that Victorian women had more to offer society than a purely ornamental erudition.

The privileges granted to European merchants in fifteenth-century London led to seething resentment in the City.

Those in Power may imagine that a docile and compliant public makes Government run more smoothly, but a society of that kind just won’t move forward.

John Stuart Mill set out three kinds of liberty essential to a truly free society: freedom of conscience, of tastes, and of association.

Even where freedom of speech and conscience are not curtailed by law, there is another kind of censorship that is just as destructive to progress.