The deep roots of liberty in Western civilization

Tom Palmer, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and Director of Cato University, discusses the deep roots of liberty in Western civilization. Palmer was very active in the late 1980s and the early 1990s in the propagation of classical liberal ideas in the Soviet bloc states and their successors. Before joining Cato he was an H.B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He regularly lectures in America and Europe on public choice, individualism and civil society, and the moral and legal foundations of individual rights.