This revolution of thought rested on a rich intellectual inheritance that stretched back millennia, drawing from Pericles’ democratic Athens, the Roman Republic transmitted through Cicero, and later Stoic and Christian traditions that grounded law in conscience and a moral order above political power.

A generation raised under constant supervision is discovering that the oversight doesn’t end when they grow up. In the 21st century, the government increasingly acts as a permanent chaperone, standing between young people and the milestones that have long marked adulthood.

As Argentina’s Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation under President Javier Milei, Federico Sturzenegger is the architect of the most ambitious deregulation effort in the country’s history.

America’s 250th anniversary is, by any measure, a moment for inventory. What has held? What has been won, slowly and painfully, from the original promise? And what remains urgently unfinished?

This issue of Free Society is dedicated to Ed Crane, cofounder and president emeritus of the Cato Institute, who passed away on February 10, 2026.

The Cato Institute is looking for libertarian entrepreneurs and innovators you haven’t heard of—yet.

Jordan Weingarten came to economics the way many scientists do—reluctantly, then obsessively. A physician by training, he had never taken an economics course, and the discipline remained largely foreign to him well into adulthood. That changed when a friend in Austin passed along a policy paper from the Cato Institute.

You don’t have to party like the Founders (and you probably shouldn’t try), but consider raising a glass with your friends and family this summer, and enjoy the revelry and camaraderie that sustain us in the pursuit of happiness.