What’s with the Rich Kid Revolutionaries?
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Damian Carabello on Surprise Billing: Through the Looking Glass
Michael Rectenwald on Recovering from Marxism and His New Book Beyond Woke
What the Trade Balance Means for a Currency’s Purchasing Power
From 9/11 to Covid-19: Nineteen Years of Permanent “Emergency”
Slavery in the Asante Empire of West Africa
Across the Western world monuments dedicated to historical figures like Robert Milligan and Edward Coulston are being toppled. It is claimed that memorials to men such as these glorify imperialism and the enslavement of black people. However, we cannot cede the debate to the radical left.
Taxation and Theft, Viking Style
When visiting an exhibition about the Viking Age at the Museum of History in Stockholm I came across a memorial runestone that had been raised by Skuli and Folki in Torsätra in Uppland,1 telling about their brother Husbjörn, who had died of sickness while collecting taxes in far away Gotland.
Three Barriers to Improving Poverty Rates in America
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As the election is well underway, the United States’s political discussion has intensified about the living standards of the poorest in the country and the solution to their poverty. The Democrats, as usual, have proposed extended welfare benefits and greater government aid to poor families.
