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"This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights. Armed in America explores how and why the right to arms transformed...

Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...

The Law, written by Frédéric Bastiat in 1850, is a foundational text in classical liberal and libertarian thought. In this concise yet powerful treatise, Bastiat argues that the proper purpose of law is to protect individual rights-specifically life, liberty, and property. He warns against the perversion of law into a tool for "legal plunder," where the state violates these rights by redistributing wealth and enforcing social agendas under the guise...