In a letter to John Adams on March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams warned that the new American legislators should not replicate the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while critiquing its procedural account of democracy, which neglects the element of ...

While contemporary defenders of state paternalism offer some formidable cases for it, Bill Glod suggests in this essay how liberals and libertarians can offer powerful responses. In the previous essay ...

Joshua J. Bowman is the executive director of the Ciceronian Society, which encourages and equips Christian scholars as they serve the church. He received his PhD in Politics at the Catholic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...