Paul Meany is the editor for intellectual history at Libertarianism.org, a project of the Cato Institute. His work mainly focuses on drawing attention to people who expounded proto-liberal principles before the Enlightenment. He is also the host of a podcast named Portraits of Liberty, which discusses often forgotten thinker's intellectual contributions towards making a freer world.
Despite Cicero’s significant reputation and widespread readership, little scholarship has focused upon Cicero’s reputation and oratorical practices’ influence upon the Founding Generation. Once Cicero delivered his orations at the court case of Roscius of Ameria, he was considered a prodigy of oratory. His career quickly took off, with him ascending each rank of a Roman […]
Throughout the course of history, the ancient civilization of Rome has been widely discussed, praised, and emulated by writers, statesmen, and philosophers alike. Rome has no shortage of admirers, and arguably some of its most enthusiastic supporters were the American Founding Fathers who were enamoured of the Roman past largely because of Rome’s unique form […]
