It’s often seemingly hopeless to try to convince people that the Middle Ages was anything other than the caricature often found in popular culture and eighteenth-century commentary. As historian Ralph Raico has noted, other than the Industrial Revolution, there is probably no historical topic in which the general public is more propagandized and more generally wrong than the topic of the Middle Ages.
President Trump’s Iran deal has opened an explosive second front in MAGA’s civil war, waged by hawkish allies who view U.S. concessions as an existential betrayal of Israel.
Thanks in large part to the erratic and often-destructive policies coming from Donald Trump’s White House, the Democrats are favored to win both houses of Congress, as they hope to flip several Republican-held seats in the House and the Senate. One of the most closely-watched races is the Senate campaign in Maine, where upstart Democrat Graham Platner is favored to end Sen. Susan Collins’s long political career.
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The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee Today announced that it will keep its target policy interest rate at 3.75 percent. The FOMC has held to this target now for seven months, but has reduced the target rate by 175 basis points since August 2024. The committee’s statement, released this afternoon, is considerably shorter than those released by former chairman Jerome Powell, coming in at only 125 words. The statement reads:
The Old Breed . . . The Complete Story Revealed:
A Father, A Son, and How WWII in the Pacific Shaped Their Lives
W. Henry Sledge
Knox Press, 2025; 352 pp.
As Murray Rothbard has taught us, few wars are just, and in modern times the conditions for a just war are virtually impossible to fulfill. One of the main reasons for this is that a modern war is bound to injure innocent civilians. As he puts it:
This article is adapted from a talk given at California’s Decline: A Warning to America in San Diego, California, on April 25, 2026.
In 2017, Scout Sheys, a resident of Berkeley, California, attended a town council meeting regarding a proposed housing development for a two-story building next to her house. As she spoke, she hoisted a zucchini above her head and waved it for the council to see.
