This week saw a bunch of great new content added to Libertarianism.org.
On Tuesday, George Smith published another essay to his ongoing series about the events leading up to the American Revolution. This time he told the story of the Boston Tea Party:
In substituting naked force for conciliation and compromise, the British hoped to use Bostonians as an example and thereby cow other colonies into submission. But the Coercive Acts had precisely the opposite effect. They stiffened American resolve, inflamed passions even more, and instigated the crucial transition from resistance to revolution.
On Wednesday, we released the third lecture in our Exploring Liberty series. Tom G. Palmer, author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, leads a whirlwind tour through human history to document the rise of libertarian ideas, starting with the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh and progressing through the history of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment thinkers.