Slavery: The “Broken Window” of American Economic History
The "New Historians" can identify the ostensible economic prowess of slavery, but they have ignored the many unseen costs imposed by slave economies.
The "New Historians" can identify the ostensible economic prowess of slavery, but they have ignored the many unseen costs imposed by slave economies.
Under Truman, FDR's revolution was consolidated and advanced beyond what even Franklin Roosevelt had ever dared hope for.
Without the culture, the life, the hum, and the energy of the city, without the shopping and walks, the theater or a ball game, city life now has all of the costs and none of the comforts.
Secession and division are hot topics today. With red and blue states deeply at odds, subsidiarity may replace ideology as the great political issue of the twenty-first century in America.
Remember savings bonds? They were popular before the central bank made sure that safe, low-interest investments became a thing of the past.
Remember savings bonds? They were popular before the central bank made sure that safe, low-interest investments became a thing of the past.
Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing.
Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing.
As notorious as the Democrat political machines are, writes Thomas DiLorenzo, the origins of vote fraud in America lie in the party of Lincoln.