For Lemuel Haynes, true republicanism does not mean unchecked majority rule; it means a government of laws, moral restraint, ...

David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous ...

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 ...

Un sogno italiano (2019), 1 a biographical television film about the industrialist Enrico Piaggio (1905–1965), depicts more than the creation of the Vespa scooter: it functions as a case study of the ...

From music to movies, individualism has had a cultural impact both pervasive and profound. “You Don’t Own Me” by Timothy Sandefur examines how people in America and Europe have addressed the unique ...

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 ...

The 17th- century Englishman John Cooke was one of the tyranny’s greatest enemies, being the first- ever person to prosecute a head of state for crimes against humanity.

One question has always shaped how we live together: who owns what? More importantly, why does a person own anything exclusively? Across centuries, thinkers have offered different justifications for ...

Prosperity and property rights are inextricably linked. The importance of having well-defined and strongly protected property rights is now widely recognized among economists and policymakers. A ...