For Lemuel Haynes, true republicanism does not mean unchecked majority rule; it means a government of laws, moral restraint, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The modern state is a contingent historical development, born in blood- - not a permanent or inevitable feature of human society. In concentrating decision- making power, the state divests citizens ...