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Classical Education Gets a Boost
Robert George writes about a positive education trend. A disturbing trend I have observed over the course of my academic career is the general decline in classical education. The slow…
Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
Education
Raising red flags about AP European history
Peter Wood explains in a Federalist column how history seems to be repeating itself (my bad joke, not his) when it comes to the College Board’s treatment of European history.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Want to help the poor? Let’s get radical.
Doing something to help the poor should, at the very least, actually help the poor.
Research Brief
Regulation
Helping the Poor With (and Without) Public Policy
John Hood wrote this week about the instructive philosophy of Cicero. Wait, don’t go yet. Cicero wasn’t just the “Roman orator and statesman … contemporary (and enemy) of Julius Caesar…
Liberty
New Carolina Journal Online features
Will Rierson reports for Carolina Journal Online on obstacles facing North Carolina’s competing major-league soccer stadium plans. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North Carolina politicians could learn lessons from…
Liberty
What Cicero can teach North Carolina about policies to help the poor
View in your browser. What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why…
Liberty
Forget Power Grabs, Watch Turkeys
As you know, I recently read The 500 Year Leap. For a few hours, I got to enjoy words from Cicero and other greats dreaming up ways to have an…
Liberty
Putting today’s political debates into perspective II
Complete the 1,000 pages in Alan Ryan’s recent two-volume history of political thought, On Politics, and you will have encountered a wide range of great — and not-so-great, Karl Marx…
Liberty
List of federal subsidy programs tops 2,000
Dan Mitchell?s Cato colleague Chris Edwards (they?ve co-written a book on global tax competition) offers this disturbing news: The number of federal subsidy programs has just topped 2,000. That represents…
Liberty
Hip To Be Square
I attended a 9/12 meeting in Hendersonville last night. I may have been wrong in assuming the March on DC was hollow hype. It was great to hear people talking…
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Digging a little deeper into Western history
Most of us know that the Founders feared tyranny and also feared unchecked democracy. But why? Carl J. Richard?s new book, Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired…
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Chasing Cheese for the Love of Tradition?
You be the judge!! “Long before our time, the customs of our ancestors molded admirable men, and in turn those eminent men upheld the ways and…