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 ...
The film is set in Naderi’s hometown of Abadan, a major port city on the Persian Gulf near the Iraqi border. Because of its ...
Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism ...
When the American founding formed from the professed creed that “all men are created equal,” it created the paradox of an egalitarian government that allows slavery. Paul Meany explores the lives of ...
English monarchs used revenues from corporate charters to work around parliamentary control of the power to tax. What the monarch giveth, the monarch may taketh away- - Such was the way of the world ...
Searles and Klein explore the extent to which Hume and Smith were proto- Darwinians. Speciation is, for the case of humans, the descent of homo sapiens from older species. The idea is that some ...
The libertarian principle on which the legitimacy of labor unions depends is freedom of association. Any person has a natural right to associate with any other person or group for any purpose that ...
Erik Matson reflects on John Callanan’s new book about Bernard Mandeville, and the controversial theories that he promoted in the late eighteenth century. Mandeville’s speculations about human nature ...
Sarah Thomas is a research associate for Lib er tar i an ism .org at Cato and a former Cato intern. She is interested in political theory and intellectual history.
Left libertarianism is a fairly recently coined term for a fairly old idea. Those people who embrace this view agree with other libertarians in holding that individuals should be free. They regard ...
Madison attempts to allay concerns about the expansion of federal powers under the Constitution. One of the more well-known founding fathers, James Madison was the primary author of the U.S.
In his first speech as Chancellor, Hitler emphasized the core value of National Socialism: the individual is nothing outside the State. Anthony Comegna received his M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2016) in ...