Few ideas in modern historical writing have generated as much intrigue as the claim that slavery and capitalism shared a common managerial language. The suggestion that slaveholders employed accounting principles comparable to those used by modern firms implies that plantations functioned as early laboratories of capitalist rationality.

Anyone who has a white female Democrat friend on Facebook invariably has seen posts by Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson. The creator of a popular Substack column, Richardson presents a message that followers of people like Robert Reich, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Alexandria Occasio-Cortez would agree with: capitalism is systematic theft and anyone who is a billionaire got that money by stealing from others.

In his vitally important article on this issue,1 Karl Hess properly refers to the genuine libertarian movement as a “revolutionary” movement. This raises the point that very few Americans understand the true meaning of the word “revolution.”

During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time.

Pat Buchanan celebrated his 87th birthday on November 2, and this makes it a fitting occasion to assess this remarkable figure in American politics.  Pat is a hero because he spoke truth to power, politically challenged the corrupt US Uniparty system when he ran for president three times, defended the sovereignty of America, and warned us about the collapse of Western Civilization.

I recall when then-President Barack Obama was planning to send troops to enforce his “Assad must go” policy in Syria, many Republican US Senators passionately argued that the US President must come to Congress for approval before sending US troops into combat overseas. At the time, they portrayed themselves as brave defenders of the US Constitution.

For more than 125 years, the United States had a gold-coin, silver-coin monetary system. No, it was not a paper-money system backed by gold, as so many mainstream commentators have been taught to believe. It was a system in which gold coins and silver coins were the official money of the American people.

Dr. Jonathan Sanford recently penned an article for First Things, lamenting the commodification of higher education. He lays the death of liberal arts education at the feet of the market, which he claims has done so to create more vocational education rather than embrace a holistic liberal arts view.