My article on Cato, the play by Joseph Addison, is in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal:
Thomas Jefferson seems not to have had “Cato” on his desk when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, but his library at Monticello did contain a copy of Addison’s collected writings—and among his peers, no single work of literature may have been more important than “Cato.” …
Anyone who doubts the enduring influence of Addison’s play, however, need look no further than a big building on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, the home of America’s premier libertarian think tank: The Cato Institute.