The English essayist, historian, and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron of Rothley (1800-1859), was the most popular and dazzling English historian of the 19th century. He was an eloquent spokesman for the liberal English middle classes....

Thomas Babington Macaulay was a public figure whose writings were inseparable from the rest of his career. His speeches made him one of the most important members of the House of Commons during the debates on the 1832 Reform Bill; his early essays for...

Thomas Babington Macaulay was a critic, member of Parliament, cabinet minister, member of the Supreme Council of India, author of the third most popular book of poems in the nineteenth century after John Keble's The Christian Year (1827) and Tennyson's...

(1800–1859), English politician, writer, member of the Supreme Council of India. Thomas Babington Macaulay was a precocious scholar, with an extremely retentive memory. After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, he began training in the law,...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer,...

Karol and I named our son Thomas Macaulay Boudreaux in honor of some truly inspiring classical liberals. Two of these are our dear friends Hugh and Pinky Macaulay. Hugh taught economics at Clemson University from the late 1940s until 1983 and was instrumental in...

The great liberal historian appreciated on his bicentenary Is the New Economy leaving behind a trail of exploited workers and uprooted communities? Has an overemphasis on tolerance gone so far as to disadvantage believers in true religion? Is free trade mostly a...