U.S. History

Governments often demand that you "ask what you can do for your country," but those governments never guarantee us anything in return for our sacrifice.

Published here for the first time is Rothbard's note on the economics of antebellum slavery. Mark Thornton comments on the paper, which criticizes the method of the New Economic History.

Governments often demand that you "ask what you can do for your country," but those governments never guarantee us anything in return for our sacrifice.

According to Philippon, in some industries Europe has a freer market than America does. The solution is somehow more regulation.

Hacking off soldiers' limbs was a favorite technique of Civil War surgeons, largely because doctors wanted to avoid blame for later cases of gangrene. So doctors erred on the "safe" side. Many patients may have disagreed.

Hacking off soldiers' limbs was a favorite technique of Civil War surgeons, largely because doctors wanted to avoid blame for later cases of gangrene. So doctors erred on the "safe" side. Many patients may have disagreed.

New York and New Jersey have produced more COVID-19 deaths than the rest of the country combined. So politicians have repeatedly claimed that the nation is "two weeks behind New York" to drum up support for extreme lockdown measures.

On the 250th anniversary, we recall that the Americans were willing to disperse, but not to disarm. In 1775, they took up arms against one of the most powerful regimes on earth.

In an effort to defy Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo, NBC, and CBS have suddenly embraced what they have long hated: state sovereignty and the extensive decentralization mandated by the Tenth Amendment.

The costs of this government-forced economic collapse—in terms of lost lives and ruined health—are likely to be devastating.