Cicero’s understanding of natural law and friendship is a vital source of what is most admirable in modern liberalism and republicanism. His insights provide valuable reminders of those virtues ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the ...

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 ...

Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a ...