On Slavery
Last week, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois slammed President Trump for using the term, “chain migration.” Like any good Leftist, Durbin never misses the opportunity, no matter how shallow and… Read more »
Tag: Cato
Of our Founding Principles Part III
Subtitle: Cato’s Letter No. 62. On Liberty, January 20th, 1722. I closed a recent squib with, “They (the writings of Sidney, Locke, Tacitus) bolstered what liberty-loving Americans had experienced and… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #115: The Encroaching Nature of Power, Ever to be Watched and Checked
This letter is among Cato’s best. Like Machiavelli in a few of his Discourses on Livy, Cato touches on the nature of despots, and the measures taken by the Roman… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #37: Character of a Good And of an Evil Magistrate, Quoted from Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Cato began his letter of July 15th 1721 with praise for the republican martyr, Algernon Sidney. Just a few decades after Sidney’s execution, open republicanism in Hanoverian England was still… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #16: The Leaders of Parties, Their Usual Views . . . *
The full title to this letter from 1720 doesn’t do justice to its content: how the fallen nature of men is concentrated once they become politicians. The outcome of party… Read more »
Cato’s Letter #38: The Right and Capacity of the People to Judge of Government
In this letter dated July 22nd 1721, Cato explained that the world is regularly lead into mistakes by people who profit from them. If the people were properly apprised of… Read more »