Beyond Diaspora Politics
Empire creates the foundation for foreign meddling in domestic politics.
U.S. History
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The Revolution’s Paper Money Legacy
While the American Revolution led to the creation of the United States, it had one sorry legacy: the proliferation of paper money. That scourge still is with us.
September 11 Twenty-Five Years Later: Learning Nothing and Forgetting Nothing
When planes slammed into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001, our world was changed for the worse. The lessons to be learned were never heeded, which led to permanent US decline.
Cuba 2026: Castro at 100 and Batista at 125
The study of the policies of these two dead Cuban political leaders is worth remembering. They illustrate why cronyism and communism are economic failures for citizens and nations.
A Firebrand Scorches Colonial Virginia
Patrick Henry is known for his fiery oratory in defense of American independence from Britain. But before he became liberty's firebrand, he first had to learn how to be an effective practitioner of the law.
R.L. Dabney Gives a Postwar Defense of His Home State Virginia
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the defense of Virginia’s secession by the theologian, R.L. Dabney, who also served as chief of staff to Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
