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 ...

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.

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 ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

George H. Smith was formerly Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, a lecturer on American History for Cato Summer Seminars, and Executive Editor of Knowledge Products. Smith’s ...

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 ...

Jeremy Bentham is known today chiefly as the father of utilitarianism. During his lifetime, Bentham was famous as the proponent of a scientific approach to social reform. Born in London, the son of an ...