Thoreau, Philosopher of Freedom: Writings on Liberty

Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women’s Political Writings of the English Civil War Era

[Please note that this is an earlier version of a published paper: Jacqueline Broad, ‘Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women’s Political Writings of the English Civil War Era’, in Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, edited by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 77-94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5895-0_5....

On Moral Liberty

The Freeman Ideas on Liberty

O n average, Federal Reserve chairmen come and go at about the same rate as U.S. presidents. Dating from the creation of this country's central bank (1913), we have seen sixteen presidents (Wilson to Bush) and fourteen Federal Reserve Chairmen (Hamlin to Bernanke). The Fed Chairmanship, however, has seen more variation in years of service—Franklin D. Roosevelt notwithstanding. Spanning four pre...

Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

The Tenets of Early Critical Writings on Fiction in Iran

From the first commentaries of Akhundzadeh to Jamalzadeh’s introduction to Yeki Bud YekiNabud, i.e., over a period of almost fifty years, we can see a collection of a few scattered commentaries on story and novel which are rarely noticed by researchers. These scattered commentaries can be regarded as the first literary manifests of story and novel. These critiques and commentaries include subje...