Understanding Cato’s Letters (Part One)
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Paul Meany of Libertarianism.org discusses the cultural environment in which Cato's Letters arrived and their impact on the American Revolution.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 26, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | Cato's letters form the namesake of the Cato Institute. |
| 0:12.0 | So what were they? Who wrote them? namesake of the Cato Institute. |
| 0:12.8 | So what were they? |
| 0:13.8 | Who wrote them? |
| 0:14.8 | What influence did they have in the founding era of the United States? |
| 0:18.8 | Paul Meaney directs Libertarianism.org. |
| 0:20.9 | We discussed Cato's letters and their influence in this part one of a two-part discussion. |
| 0:26.0 | I think we have to start here. |
| 0:28.0 | When people see the letters C-A-T-O, as in the Cato Institute, they assume that Cato is named for a Roman senator, |
| 0:38.8 | one of two in particular, but that is not true. |
| 0:42.1 | No, some people have asked me if it's an acronym. but that is not true. No. |
| 0:43.0 | Some people have asked me if it's an acronym or not. |
| 0:46.0 | That's another classic, but... |
| 0:48.0 | I love... |
| 0:49.0 | It's Caleb and the others. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh yeah, yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | But go ahead. So some people will ask me if it's an acronym. Some people are a little smarter about it and say is a kid of the younger or a kid of the elder. |
| 1:00.0 | But the answer is it's kind of Kato the younger, but it's also not at all. |
| 1:04.0 | Cato Institute is actually named after Cato's Letters, |
| 1:07.4 | which were a collection of 138 originally, |
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