Back in late June when the Senate signed off on President Trump’s legislation to alter federal spending priorities while keeping deficits stuck in the multi-trillion dollar (teradollar) range—The One Bloated Brobdingnian Bill (BBB)—the heroic Rand Paul was the only budget hawk to vote against it in opposition to deficit spending (in contrast to Democrats and a few centrist Republicans, who rejected the BBB’s shift in spending priorities away from Med

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.