World History

Ready to see history with new eyes? You won’t look at war the same way again.

With the resurrection of Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower project set for completion around 2027, could another global economic crisis be imminent?

With all of the current angst about tariffs and other issues, it is easy to forget that there are missile silos around the world with weapons that can destroy the world as we have known it. All that is needed to set off a holocaust is one bad decision.

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.