World History

Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.

While Democratic Socialism is the darling of the political left, all forms of socialism have come from the brutal model first imposed upon Russia in 1917.

India has the longest history of affirmative action programs in the world and they have become the center of heated controversy between two clashing viewpoints.

Peterson implies the “dark tetrad” is emerging on the non-interventionist right, cloaking their real intentions with conservative rhetoric. Interestingly, however, a historical parallel exists in neoconservatism, whose intellectual roots are deeply rooted in Machiavellianism.

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.

A past article, presenting a “libertarian” viewpoint of nuclear weapons, has two choices, but pointedly leaves out a third choice: nuclear disarmament. According to Murray Rothbard, disarmament is the only true moral choice and also the most practical.

The state is not necessary for human development or governance. It is important that advocates of freedom and free markets publish scholarship that builds on this truly libertarian, or laissez-faire, view of the state. In this issue of The Misesian, Roberta Modugno does just that.

When modern progressives claim to support equity, what they really mean is the confiscation of wealth and transferal of private property to politically-favored groups. These policies have a sorry history from Reconstruction and continued through the 20th century communist regimes.

The covid-19 pandemic gave rise to widespread lockdowns and some of the greatest peacetime infringements on personal liberties in history.

In “The Making of the State,” Prof. Modugno shows that even as the state was coming into being, historians and scholars understood that it was something new and different and that the state is central to what we now call “modernity,” which is defined by the overwhelming power of states.