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Portraits of Liberty — 88 episodes
The Prosecutor of Kings: John Cooke
How to Read Like a Founding Father
Sociology’s Forgotten Origins: Khaldun, Ferguson, and Spencer
A Martyr for Freedom of Speech: Helmuth Hübener
The Making of Modern Japan: Fukuzawa Yukichi
Cato’s Letters: Against Tyranny and Corruption
A Son of the Forest: William Apess
The Forgotten Polish Republican: Wawrzyniec Goślicki and the Rights of a Free Commonwealth
A Quiet Rebel: José Castellanos
Japan's Ignored Anarchist: Andō Shōeki
Benjamin Franklin: A Versatile Genius, with Guest Mark Skousen
Joseph Hiam Levy: A Forgotten Radical for Liberty, with guest Matt Zwolinski
Liberty With an Asterisk: Black Americans In the Revolution Era
The Father of Abolitionism: John Rankin (With Caleb Franz)
How Self-Interest Built Societies: Bernard Mandeville
Shyamji Krishna Varma: A Spencerian Radical
Jeannette Rankin: The Peaceful Outlier
Olaudah Equiano: The Man Who Transformed the Abolitionist Movement
Revisiting Frédéric Bastiat
The Father of the School of Salamanca: Francisco de Vitoria
The Forgotten Austrian: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
The Law of Equal Freedom: Herbert Spencer
The German Economic “Miracle”: Ludwig Erhard
Redefining the Enlightenment: Namık Kemal (with Mustafa Akyol)
Liberty Further Extended: Lemuel Haynes
The Violent Genesis of the State: Franz Oppenheimer
The Medieval Case Against Taxes: William of Pagula
No Superior and Few Equals: Elizabeth Freeman
The Soldier Philosopher: Adam Ferguson
The Forgotten Abolitionist: The Black Revolutionary, Industrialist, and Abolitionist James Forten
Liberty's Forgotten Man: William Graham Sumner
Live like a Libertarian: Karl Hess
Citizen Jane: Jane Jacobs
A Monument to Freedom of Speech: Havel's Place
Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange
Why Study History?
The Highly Visible Hand: Richard Cantillon
The Most Popular Economist: Henry George
A Feminist before Feminism: Marie De Gournay
An Enlightened Entrepreneur: Josiah Wedgwood
The Father of Indian Economics: Kautilya
The Liberal Hero of the Philippines: José Rizal
The First Japanese Classical Liberal: Itagaki Taisuke
Portraits Winter Break
The Founder of Many Disciplines: Ibn Khaldun
The Colossus of Independence: John Adams (with C. Bradley Thompson)
Names Change but Dictators Remain: Luis Cabrera Lobato(with Luis Felipe Barrón Córdova)
Poet Turned President: Václav Havel
A Martyr for Religious Freedom: Mary Dyer (with Paul Matzko)
Apostle of Cuban Independence: José Martí
(Re-Release): Cicero: An Ancestor of Liberalism
Early Arguments for Economic Liberty: The De La Court Brothers
Resisting the Nazis: Sophie Scholl
A Forgotten American Hero: Roger Williams
The Liberal Ideas of Ibn Rushd (with Mustafa Aykol)
When Ireland was Stateless (with Kevin Flanagan)
The First Chinese Constitutionalist: Huang Zongxi
A Champion of Civil Liberties: John Lilburne
The Enemy of Tyranny: Cato the Younger
Protector of the Native Americans: Bartolomé de las Casas
Locofocos, The Radical Classical Liberals
Saving Classical Liberalism: Isabel Paterson
Nuns Against the State: Arcangela Tarabotti
Where Buddhism & Libertarianism Intersect (with Aaron Ross Powell)
Keep Government Simple: Mozi
(Re-Release): Forgotten Libertarians
A Lover of Individualism: Zora Neale Hurston
The Mother of Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane
Freedom in Ancient China: Mencius
Liberty, Free Speech, and Killing Tyrants: John of Salisbury
Cicero: An Ancestor of Liberalism
Anders Chydenius
The English Cato: Algernon Sidney
John Stuart Mill's Co-author Harriet Taylor Mill
The Apostle of Free Trade: Richard Cobden
Frédéric Bastiat
The African Enlightenment
Libertarianism at School: Maria Montessori
Dismantling the State with Étienne De La Boétie
The Founding Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
Auberon Herbert and Voluntaryism
Taking the King to Court, John Cooke
Rehabilitating Democracy, George Grote
Separating the Church and State, Marsilius of Padua
Poullain and Equality
Beccaria Modernized Criminal Law
Cato's Letters
The First Western Feminist