Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the fraught relationship between the media, marketing, and government, and the complex implications for truth, power, and propaganda.

Written in 1320 amid war and uncertainty, the Declaration of Arbroath insisted that kings exist for their people and may be ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s ...

“I say to you, my prohibition friends, your movement is doomed to defeat, because you build on a foundation of sand, on a perverted principle.” At the national level, alcohol prohibition was an ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and ...

While libertarians should reject state paternalism, what should we do about those who are alleged to lack the competence to make free choices?

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

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 ...

Although relatively few libertarians are pacifists, libertarians tend to be substantially less bellicose than the average citizen. Modern libertarianism has deep roots in classical liberalism, an ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at ...

The origin of the idea that liberty could be preserved through the separation of powers endures through the arguments of Polybius. Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Lib er tar i an ...