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 ...

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 ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo review Amir Naderi’s film The Runner, which explores themes of self- resilience, innovation, and voluntary exchange through the story of eleven- year- old Iranian orphan Amiro ...

The film is set in Naderi’s hometown of Abadan, a major port city on the Persian Gulf near the Iraqi border. Because of its oil refinery and strategic location, Abadan was among the first and most ...

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 ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

While Karl Marx hated Pierre- Joseph Proudhon and his philosophy of mutualism, a libertarian can find in it much to appreciate. Although Herbert Spencer has been rightly regarded as the most ...

Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones Act of today? Caleb Petitt argues that a careful reading of Smith on the ...

The modern state is a contingent historical development, born in blood- - not a permanent or inevitable feature of human society. In concentrating decision- making power, the state divests citizens ...

Having previously discussed abolitionist black women, Presley highlights some of the white women in the movement to end slavery. The valiant efforts of abolitionist men like William Lloyd Garrison, ...