U.S. History

Most income inequality stats provide a cloudy and confusing picture of the real situation. Even worse, these stats are used to justify a wide variety of tax hikes and government interventions.

Firearm sound suppressors are nothing like they are portrayed in Hollywood movies. Also, they are already heavily regulated by federal officials. Efforts to ban them are nothing more than political posturing.

One of the most instructive of all examples from maritime history is that of privateering, that is, the employment of profit-seeking, private armed ships during wartime.

The vast majority of recorded hate crimes fall into a number of activities that normally fall under misdemeanor or even civil categories. The real and far-more-common threat continues to be regular ol' ordinary violent crime.

Jeff Deist interviewed about American Indian tribes and property rights.

After many decades of rent control and other regulations, New York politicians still can't seem to figure out why housing is so expensive.

In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power.

Government policy encourages homeless people to congregate in public areas twice over: first, cities destroy access to very-low-cost housing. Second, city governments often refuse to enforce their own rules of public-space use. Tent cities result.

Joakim Book reviews Greenspan and Wooldridge's 'Capitalism in America.' What could go wrong with a book from a former Fed chairman? Quite a lot!

There is almost no economic problem, real or imagined, that cannot be made worse by inappropriate government regulation. Antitrust is no exception.