# [ ](/free-society) Fall 2025 Vol. 2, No. 3 ![Free Society Fall 2025 Cover - Milei](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_3x/public/2025-10/v001-mm.jpg?itok=CFVhYrox) Creating free, open, and civil societies founded on libertarian principles. ### [Cato in the News](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/news-fall-2025) Noteworthy op-eds, TV appearances, and media highlights. ### [Cato Quarterly](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/cato-quarterly) Events, publications, and studies. ![](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/aside_mobile/public/2024-03/peter-goettler-portrait.png?itok=5uvrGnxs) ## [ A Letter from the President, Peter Goettler ](/free-society/fall-2025/letter-president-peter-goettler) Unmoored to principle, many citizens or political leaders now support exercises of power they previously condemned. [Read the Letter](/free-society/fall-2025/letter-president-peter-goettler) #### Features [![Liberty Vs Power - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-0.jpg?itok=jiTaS003)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/liberty-versus-power-mileis-argentina) Free Society ### [Liberty Versus Power in Milei’s Argentina](/free-society/fall-2025/liberty-versus-power-mileis-argentina) By [Ian Vásquez](https://www.cato.org/people/ian-vasquez) and [Marcos Falcone](https://www.cato.org/people/marcos-falcone) Argentine President Javier Milei entered office nearly two years ago on the promise of returning his country to its classical liberal roots. Since then, his administration has slashed government spending, reined in inflation, and deregulated large parts of the economy, but Argentina’s libertarian renewal is far from finished and under attack from the Peronist opposition. [![Unplanned Path to Abundance - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-1.jpg?itok=tbDFSGb0)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/unplanned-path-abundance) Free Society ### [The Unplanned Path to Abundance](/free-society/fall-2025/unplanned-path-abundance) By [Johan Norberg](https://www.cato.org/people/johan-norberg) Progressives and conservatives alike have their own plans for prosperity, but both miss the same core truth: There is no blueprint for abundance. Humans thrive only when they’re left alone to freely think, speak, invest, and experiment— to take risks and shoulder the consequences, good or bad. #### In This Issue [![Breaking Bureaucracy - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-2.jpg?itok=8UcuRw_G)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/breaking-bureaucracy-artificial-intelligence) Free Society ### [Breaking Bureaucracy with Artificial Intelligence](/free-society/fall-2025/breaking-bureaucracy-artificial-intelligence) By [Matt Mittelsteadt](https://www.cato.org/people/matt-mittelsteadt) Excessive regulation, administrative bloat, and other institutional bottlenecks are stifling the economy and everyday life. In the absence of political will to fix these problems, artificial intelligence may be our best chance to cut through the red tape. [![Sign Language - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-4.jpg?itok=CRNlv-jl)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/spontaneous-emergence-nicaraguan-sign-language) Free Society ### [The Spontaneous Emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language](/free-society/fall-2025/spontaneous-emergence-nicaraguan-sign-language) By [Paul Meany](https://www.cato.org/people/paul-meany) Whether in language, law, or commerce, lasting orders emerge from the bottom up, not from the commands of any distant expert. Five decades ago, a group of deaf Nicaraguan children offered a striking illustration of this process when they created a language from scratch. [![Flemming Rose - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-5.jpg?itok=o_npOkGi)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/flemming-rose-reflects-state-free-speech-20-years-after-muhammad-cartoon) Free Society ### [Flemming Rose Reflects on the State of Free Speech, 20 Years After the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy](/free-society/fall-2025/flemming-rose-reflects-state-free-speech-20-years-after-muhammad-cartoon) By [Jonathan Fortier](https://www.cato.org/people/jonathan-fortier) This September marked two decades since the Danish newspaper *Jyllands-Posten* published cartoons of Muhammad, igniting a global maelstrom over free speech, tolerance, and multiculturalism. Jonathan Fortier, the director of Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org, sat down in Copenhagen for a wide-ranging interview with Flemming Rose, who spearheaded the publication of those cartoons as the culture editor at *Jyllands-Posten* in 2005. [![Cultivating Discourse - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-6.jpg?itok=LhN2MYPH)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/cultivating-classical-liberal-thought-inside-new-cato-university) Free Society ### [Cultivating Classical Liberal Thought: Inside the New Cato University](/free-society/fall-2025/cultivating-classical-liberal-thought-inside-new-cato-university) By [Josh Hardman](https://www.cato.org/people/josh-hardman) The stakes for free expression on campus are rising even higher, with partisan rancor and illiberal attitudes at dangerous levels. Cato University prepares students to cut through polarization and advocate for a free society. [![Last Word Fall 25 - List Image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2025-10/list-7.jpg?itok=PiCmYnc8)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/fall-2025/last-word-permission-problem-too-little-building-not-enough-freedom) Free Society ### [Last Word | The Permission Problem: Too Little Building and Not Enough Freedom](/free-society/fall-2025/last-word-permission-problem-too-little-building-not-enough-freedom) By [Stephen Slivinski](https://www.cato.org/people/stephen-slivinski) ### Never miss a beat. [ ](/free-society) Sign up for our email newsletter now to get the latest digital *Free Society* issues delivered straight to your inbox. [text](#) “ All civil virtue and happiness, every moral excellency, all politeness, all good arts and sciences, are produced by liberty. ” Cato’s Letter, no. 63 1723 John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon