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Why the Separation of Bank and State Is so Important
Most lovers of freedom and free markets champion the separation of the state (politics and politicians) from a lot of…
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12 Marvelous Quotes on the Bill of Rights
Americans over the age of 60 will likely remember the hilarious TV game show that ran for 25 years (1965-1980)…
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What Gibbon Got Wrong in ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
In The Devil’s Dictionary, the writer Ambrose Bierce offered this definition of History: “An account mostly false, of events mostly…
Read More » Warren Harding’s Historic Speech on Race: How Black and White Americans Responded
No matter which major party won America’s presidential election in 1920, the country was destined for another chief executive from…
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Joseph and Esther Reed: Two Reeds I Want to be Related To
Anyone who has ever dabbled in genealogy knows that as you go back into family history, the answers to one…
Read More » What ‘Little Women’ Author Louisa May Alcott Learned about Socialism in a 19th Century Utopian Commune
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published more than a century and a half ago—in 1868—and all these decades later,…
Read More »Was George Orwell a Socialist or a Libertarian? It’s Complicated
When George Orwell’s Animal Farm was first published on August 17 in 1945, World War II in Europe had concluded…
Read More »The Humor—and Wisdom—of Will Rogers
On this date in 1935—August 15—a man who made all of America laugh suddenly made the whole country cry. Will…
Read More »Meet the Roman Emperor Who Bought the Imperial Throne—and Paid With His Life
Does money buy high public office? It’s a contentious political question. The best answer, it seems to me, is this:…
Read More »What the Nazis Had in Common With Every Other Collectivist Regime in the 20th Century
Today marks an infamous centennial. One hundred years ago—on July 29, 1921—Adolf Hitler assumed the leadership of the National Socialist…
Read More »Marxist Student Group Demands Abolition of Hayek Society at London School of Economics
“Wherever books are burned,” wrote the German journalist and poet Heinrich Heine, “men in the end will also burn.” He…
Read More »What Joe Biden and Henry VII Have in Common
Six months into his presidency, Joe Biden has yet to meet a tax he does not like. He proposes higher…
Read More »The Real Victims of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Boycott Against Israel
Everybody knows that the Vermont-based ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s can dish it out, but we will soon find…
Read More »Why Australia’s Gold Rush Ushered in Political Freedom (as Well as Wealth)
Historically, the connection between gold and liberty is a potent one. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to assert—if you will…
Read More »Meet the Only Monarch in History Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
EL CHORRO, SPAIN – After a leisurely stroll yesterday on “the world’s scariest hike,” I am ready for the main…
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