Cicero’s understanding of natural law and friendship is a vital source of what is most admirable in modern liberalism and ...

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

Recent defenders of state paternalism argue that traditional objections fail to identify anything distinctively problematic ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Libertarianism, and the classical liberalism from which it sprang, supports a strictly limited state, if indeed its adherents recognize the legitimacy of the state at all. The minimal state is a ...