For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...

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 ...

From music to movies, individualism has had a cultural impact both pervasive and profound. “You Don’t Own Me” by Timothy Sandefur examines how people in America and Europe have addressed the unique ...

“We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the ...

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa. Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo review Amir ...

One question has always shaped how we live together: who owns what? More importantly, why does a person own anything exclusively? Across centuries, thinkers have offered different justifications for ...