Today marks the birthday of the great 19th-century American philosopher Lysander Spooner, who committed his life to advancing the cause of liberty. Born in Athol, Massachusetts on Jan. 19, 1808, ...

Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. He was also one of the great American anarchists whose legacy remains so toweringly influential that capitalists and socialists alike routinely bitch each other ...

Thomas Jefferson once observed that "a little rebellion now and then was a good thing" for a nation. Lysander Spooner, who was 18 when Jefferson died, devoted his life to the little and big rebellions ...

Today marks the birthday of the great 19th-century American philosopher Lysander Spooner, who committed his life to advancing the cause of liberty. Born in Athol, Massachusetts on Jan. 19, 1808, ...

On this date in 1808, Lysander Spooner was born in Athol, Masssachusetts. You can celebrate by reading the Spooner symposium on “Liberty Matters,” for which I was pleased to write the lead essay, The ...