Lore of the Founding: Cato And Give Me Liberty, Give Me Death
About this episode
The episode explores the influence of Cato the Younger on concepts of freedom and republican virtue, drawing parallels to contemporary American politics.
One Roman name keeps popping up wherever people argue about freedom, tyranny, and what a citizen owes a republic: Cato. We follow Cato the Younger from the final days of the Roman Republic, when Julius Caesar’s rise forces a brutal choice between compromise and principle. Cato’s answer is extreme and unforgettable, and it raises the same question that keeps resurfacing in American politics: what does “republican virtue” actually demand from us? From there, we trace how Stoicism shapes Cato’s...
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