World History

How socialists learned to work through institutions instead of throwing up barricades. It seems that America’s “democratic” socialists are repeating the same strategy.

The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it.

Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the war has failed to produce either goal. Instead, Trump calls for opening the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open before the war.

The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit.

Few Marxists admit to being Marxists. Instead, they are true believers in the creation of the utopian society—if only the rest of us will give them the power they deserve.

Scotland's celebrated free banks were neither free nor superior.

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite. Ryan McMaken on why liberalism keeps getting blamed for a Terror it didn't cause.

The Policy and History faculty panel takes student questions on the state of the movement and the prospects for freedom.