World History

The free economy has liberated the human spirit to produce a level of prosperity unknown in the history of the world. (Opinion column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The most conspicious and odious symbol of socialist tyranny came down ten years ago. (Reflections by Tibor R. Machan)

This year marks the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of all German writers and poets and one of the giants of world literature. In his political outlook, he was also a thorough-going classical liberal, arguing that free trade and free cultural exchange are the keys to authentic national and international integration. He argued and fought against the expansion, centralization, and unification of government on grounds that these trends can only hinder prosperity and true cultural development

The old formula is at work: distract the people from internal corruption. (Article by Yuri N. Maltsev)

The sordid history of failed economic predictions in our time. (Analysis by Clifford F. Thies.) 

Mises on anti-profit language and literature. (Column by William Peterson)

The Titanic story began to be politicized as soon as news arrived that the ship had gone down in the North Atlantic during the early hours of April 15, 1912. Senator William Alden Smith, a "progressive" Republican and friend of activist government, called the White House to find out what President Taft intended to do about the disaster. He discovered that Taft did not hold the typical twentieth-century assumption that the president of the United States is responsible for solving every problem in the world. Smith was told that Taft intended to do nothing about the Titanic.

A primer on the postwar U.S. empire, by Joseph Stromberg. 

The meaningless catastrophe of 1914-18.