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Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

In the 1640s, an unknown English printer by the name of Richard Overton suddenly surfaced, seemingly out of nowhere, and catapulted himself into na

Alexander J. Groth

The war in Iraq continues to dominate international developments and in its uncertain course casts a shadow not only on the foreign policy record o

Andrei Kreptul

Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent, ethnically-based political entities emerged.

Gene Callahan

It is a common belief that every historian, in trying to describe any episode from the human past, cannot help but color his narrative with the hue

Paul Gottfried

Among spokemen for the Post-Marxist Left, Jürgen Habermas (1923–) may be the most prominent and, in his own country, the most honored.

Myles Kantor

The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

In this article, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. reviews Nicholas Orme’s Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England.

Joseph R. Stromberg

The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which closed out the era of wars “of”—or allegedly “about”—religion, established what might