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Athens · 5th century BC
The Assembly and Its Limits
Pericles' funeral oration alongside the trial of Socrates — self-government's first triumph and its first warning.
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Six reading paths through the history of freedom
England · 1215
Magna Carta in Plain English
The clauses that mattered: no taxation without consent, no imprisonment without judgment, no king above law.
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America · 1787
The Founders' Design
Why enumerated powers, separated branches, and a bill of rights were written as chains on government.
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Vienna · 1871–1974
The Austrian School Reader
Menger, Mises, and Hayek on subjective value, the price signal, and the limits of any planner's knowledge.
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Everywhere · Always
How Trade Made Us Rich
Bastiat's seen and unseen, comparative advantage, and the quiet mathematics of voluntary exchange.
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Modern · 1789–today
Speech, Conscience, Dissent
From the First Amendment to samizdat: why the freedom to be wrong out loud protects everything else.
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The study path
Four stages, in order.
- Why Athens invented the assembly, and what it never solved about minority rights
- Roman property law: possession, contract, and the birth of private title
- Cicero on natural law and the idea of a rule above the ruler
- Reading workshop: Pericles, Thucydides, and the cost of empire