World History

Jeff Deist and John Denson discuss the infamous World War I truce that took place between British and German soldiers in December 1914.

Luckily for us all, Mises survived the war and went on to live a life that fundamentally altered the world. He overcame the Nazis, academic blacklists, and the personal hardships that tends to haunt any man who refuses to sacrifice his principles.

Jeff Deist and Yuri Maltsev discuss Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Western progressives' silly and enduring love affair with socialism.

Nicholas Maduro is far from having surrendered his power after the latest elections.

Government failure was being felt everywhere this week, from the massive law-enforcement failure in Sen Bernardino to the crumbling economy in Brazil. Meanwhile, government tells us it only needs a little more money, power, and time to solve all problems.

As the economy worsens, the Brazilian Congress this week announced that it will impeach the president of Brazil. Unfortunately, impeaching President Dilma Rousseff by itself will do little to fix Brazil’s economy when Brazilian politics remains dominated by anti-market forces.

Strange centennial somehow makes sense in the world of Leviathan.

President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.

The Paris attacks forced the world's attention away from causes such as the plight of "white privilege" on college campuses and back to the consequences of blowback to interventionist foreign policy. Unfortunately, the political response to these atrocities have been predictable.

EU members are closing their borders across Europe, effectively redrawing the map. But this doesn't mean an end to a unified Europe. We may be seeing the prelude to the emergence of a smaller and more militaristic European Union.