While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

Founding Father John Witherspoon gracefully combined economic liberalism and theological orthodoxy. Throughout history, the ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

Life in early colonial Virginia was as nasty, brutish, and short as it got for seventeenth- century Englishmen. Very few documents remain from common people for the whole of the seventeenth- century, ...

While contemporary defenders of state paternalism offer some formidable cases for it, Bill Glod suggests in this essay how ...

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 ...

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 ...

We explore how John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon’s fiery writings helped shape free speech and resistance to tyranny. Long before the American Revolution, in the 1720s, a series of newspaper essays ...

For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced the future of the rule of law in the United States during the trials for ...

Recent defenders of state paternalism argue that traditional objections fail to identify anything distinctively problematic about it that don’t also pertain to other state activities these objectors ...

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 ...