The Emergence of Grant, Part 4: Unconditional Surrender
After Grant pushes the Confederates back to Fort Donelson, the southern leaders must decide whether to attempt escape or surrender.
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The Emergence of Grant, Part 3: Fort Donelson
Chris Calton details Ulysses S. Grant's attack on Fort Donelson by land and water.
Our Greatest Presidents?
The professional custodians of American views of history have always named the same presidents as "great." It's always the presidents who abused power frequently, and expanded government power the most.
The Emergence of Grant, Part 2: Fort Henry
Chris Calton recounts a victory that would give the Union access to the Confederate heartland—the capture of Fort Henry.
“Progressive” Attacks on Capitalism Were Key to Hitler’s Success
Mises wrote this essay in 1940 from Geneva, where he lived after Nazis forced him out of Austria and his apartment was ransacked by German troops.
The Emergence of Grant, Part 1: Finding the Gateway
Chris Calton details Ulysses S. Grant's early actions in the Civil War.
Stephen Walt Wants Libertarians To Join Forces with Foreign-Policy Realists
Disagreements between libertarians and realists are a problem. But in the current interventionist-dominated environment, the disagreements don't strike me as an especially big problem — at least for now.
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 5: Iron versus Iron
Chris Calton details the first ever battle between two ironclad warships.
The Unseen Costs of Humanitarian Intervention
Those who are advocating for new interventions in Syria and Venezuela show little interest in confronting the real costs of intervention. They just want to say they "did something" even if those things will turn out to be disastrous.
Humanitarian Interventions Are Killing National Sovereignty — And That’s a Bad Thing
The growing acceptance of "humanitarian" interventions works to remove national sovereignty as a bulwark against expansionist large states in the international order.
