The free market will sound cruel and crazy if you misunderstand fundamental economic laws. Government disrupts wealth-creation and impedes moves to an optimal allocation of resources and risk.

The evidence is clear, capitalism means consumer control, competitive ingenuity and voluntary exchange. After the failure of the Keynesian Welfare State, Milton Friedman argues a way forward.

How the welfare state has entrenched poverty and shattered society. Divorcing people from the consequences of imprudent behaviour only makes them more devastating for society later on.

Bloom chronicles the consequences of the West's decaying belief in truth and objective good.

The self-regulating market explained. Individuals act for a purpose, calculating how best to cooperate on the basis of floating price signals. Governments can only distort such arrangements.

A profound analysis of statesmanship. While Douglas calls for popular sovereignty, Lincoln puts the case for a higher law. Condoning despotism over blacks would soon lead to despotism all around.

The justification for the constitution of the United States. Human nature is bad enough to make republican government necessary, but good enough to make it possible.

A fantastic set of essays attacking the superficial temptations of the bourgeois world, while defending the American idea.

Why liberty is the best policy. With personal responsibility, progress is unceasing. Without it, society decays.

The sequal to the House Divided. How Lincoln's path to Gettysburg was the only one strictly consistent with the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence and the rule of law.

A foreign policy for the new century. Support democracy everywhere, lend force when it aligns with out interests. This will vie will isolationism for the hearts of the right.

The history of the world is driven by more than people acting to self-interest. Liberal Democracy brings peace and progress because it fulfils man's more holistic nature.