I'm skeptical about this Cicero Institute. Palantir, Niall Ferguson, private prison contracts, ...? It strikes me as west coast version of the Cato Institute. Also, I also don't think of Cicero as any sort of stoic. He was a lawyer, a politician and a republican. He certainly used stoicism in his orations from time to time but only out of convenience in the way an American politician might appeal to our 'rugged individualism'.