U.S. History

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Joshua Mawhorter

As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors.

Connor O'Keeffe

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.

Birsen Filip

While Murray Rothbard opposed the communist system, he also recognized that Cuba was no threat to the US militarily or economically. That is why he believed the US must recognize Cuba's government and permit trade and travel between the two countries.

Wanjiru Njoya

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

Wanjiru Njoya

What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running one’s life.

David Gordon

This week, Dr. David Gordon reviews Ivan Eland's A Balance of Titans. While admiring Eland’s call for less intervention, Dr. Gordon asks why the US needs to intervene militarily overseas at all.

Joshua Mawhorter

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.