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 allows slavery. Paul Meany explores the lives of ...

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 ...

The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...

Erik Matson reflects on John Callanan’s new book about Bernard Mandeville, and the controversial theories that he promoted in the late eighteenth century. Mandeville’s speculations about human nature ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s ...

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 ...

William Apess was a soldier, preacher, writer, and the first Native American to publish a full- length autobiography. Born of Pequot descent and raised amid abuse, poverty, and dispossession, his ...