U.S. History

Greenspan recently said he is not sure what the money supply is. But money is like any commodity: it has a supply and it can be counted.

The judge in the Microsoft case says the company is like Standard Oil earlier this century. He's right, for the wrong reasons. 

You may never have heard of them, but they battled against the main cause of state expansion in the 20th century. 

At the end of the century, Bill Clinton declared Franklin D. Roosevelt the "man of the century" for having "saved capitalism," echoing the gushing praise that Newt Gingrich has heaped on FDR, calling him "the greatest figure of the twentieth century." The greatest phony of the twentieth century would be more appropriate.

This year's political campaigns highlight at least one positive trend: the "best and brightest," who nearly wrecked us, are no longer wasting their talents serving the state. 

The nation state just isn't what it used to be--and it's a good thing too.

Gary Wills's new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb. 

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

That Nasa is a boondoggle and a socio-economic drain should be obvious to all. How does this bureaucracy continue to get away with it?