Portraits of Liberty

Portraits of Liberty

Libertarianism.org

14 minutes 24 seconds

No Superior and Few Equals: Elizabeth Freeman

Born into slavery, Elizabeth Freeman gained her freedom in 1781, eighty years before the American Civil War. Freeman did not escape to Pennsylvania as was common at the time. She gained her freedom through the courts. Upon winning her case, she changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman to celebrate her new life.
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16 April 2024, 8:46 pm
15 minutes 35 seconds

The Soldier Philosopher: Adam Ferguson

Born between the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, Ferguson made a name for himself writing philosophical history, an early precursor to sociology. In his famous work, An Essay on The History of Civil Society, Ferguson explained how civilization is refined over many generations as society evolves to deal with ever-increasing complexity.
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28 March 2024, 3:06 pm
23 minutes 25 seconds

The Forgotten Abolitionist: The Black Revolutionary, Industrialist, and Abolitionist James Forten

Despite his upbringing in poverty and vicious racial discrimination, the black freeman James Forten rose to become one of the foremost sailmakers in Philadelphia and a crucial voice in the abolition of slavery. Though largely forgotten today, Forten defied the racial stereotypes of his day and became a symbol of black achievement in the new nation of America.
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27 February 2024, 3:54 pm
21 minutes 39 seconds

Liberty's Forgotten Man: William Graham Sumner

This month, we examine the often-overlooked legacy of William Graham Sumner, a 19th-century sociologist, economist, and political thinker. Despite his pivotal role in establishing sociology as a discipline at Yale, Sumner's contributions have been overshadowed, partly due to his association with Herbert Spencer, who has been incorrectly labeled a social Darwinist. The episode delves into Sumner's life ideas, covering his critique of imperialism, the Forgotten Man, and the phenomenon of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs.
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30 January 2024, 5:57 pm
19 minutes 10 seconds

Live like a Libertarian: Karl Hess

Renowned for his larger-than-life character, Karl Hess started as a conservative but slowly shifted away from the Republican party, turning towards the New Left. Eventually seeing the contradictions of both the right and the left, Hess became an anarchist without hyphens.
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20 December 2023, 9:00 am
21 minutes 47 seconds

Citizen Jane: Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs revolutionized the study of cities. She did not see them as merely areas of high population densities, but as huge laboratories for experimentation making cities the flash points of the history of human progress. Her intellectual career was spent checking the hubris of government officials.

Further Reading:
A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs by Sanford Ikeda

More articles and podcasts from Libertarianism.org:
The Rise of Free Cities: Guizot's Seventh Lecture
The Harlem Renaissance: Black Cultural Innovation Unleashed
Immanuel Kant on Spontaneous Order
Interview with Chelsea Follett – The Liberty Exchange
The Ethics Of Progress – Building Tomorrow
Why More People Means More Wealth – Free Thoughts

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15 November 2023, 9:00 am
18 minutes 38 seconds

A Monument to Freedom of Speech: Havel's Place

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Havel's Place in Georgetown, an episode dedicated to the dissidents of Czechoslovakia responsible for the Velvet Revolution in 1989, overthrowing the brutal Communist regime without violence or bloodshed.

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2 October 2023, 8:00 am
3 minutes 14 seconds

Coming Soon: The Liberty Exchange

Coming soon, a brand new podcast from Libertarianism.org...
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2 October 2023, 12:00 am
13 minutes 17 seconds

Why Study History?

A special 50th episode of Portraits about why a layperson should study history.
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30 June 2022, 8:00 am
18 minutes 59 seconds

The Highly Visible Hand: Richard Cantillon

Despite his obscurity today, the French Irish economist Richard Cantillon was the first person to put forward a theory of the entrepreneur in the market economy.
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18 May 2022, 2:55 pm
20 minutes 8 seconds

The Most Popular Economist: Henry George

In 1879, Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty, still one of the bestselling economics books of all time; in it, he argued for the abolition of all kinds of taxes but one.
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5 May 2022, 8:00 am
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