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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...