Cicero’s understanding of natural law and friendship is a vital source of what is most admirable in modern liberalism and ...

Recent defenders of state paternalism argue that traditional objections fail to identify anything distinctively problematic ...

For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...

Thomas Berry is the director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was an attorney at ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa. Libertarian Lens on Film is a column that ...

For Lemuel Haynes, true republicanism does not mean unchecked majority rule; it means a government of laws, moral restraint, and constitutional balance designed to secure equal rights. Lemuel Haynes ...

Jonathan Fortier talks with David Beito about FDR’s rise to the American presidency, and the negative consequences for civil, political and economic liberty. In this episode, Jonathan Fortier talks ...

Cicero insisted that doing good is doing well—that moral rectitude is always what is personally expedient, even if something else seems to be expedient. Dan Klein exposits and explores Cicero’s famous ...

David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous action and happiness. The duties we owe to others arise primarily from “the ...

When the American founding formed from the professed creed that “all men are created equal,” it created the paradox of an egalitarian government that allowed slavery. Paul Meany explores the lives of ...