History
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Afghanistan, Again? Unlearned Lessons of America’s Longest War
Congress rejected constitutional alternatives in favor of remaking a nation. Abroad, as at home, lawmakers cannot manufacture preferred social outcomes simply by spending more money.
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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Huey Long’s Populism Is Back In Fashion
JD Vance’s admiration for Huey Long reveals how readily today’s populist right embraces the high spending and economic control it once condemned on the left.
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Fear Is Testing Freedom Again
America answered the terror of 9/11 by making every citizen more visible to the state. Will our genuine fears of AI be used to erode liberty and privacy even further?
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The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism
Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds’ traces the intellectual evolution of the New Right and the ideas driving its rejection of liberalism.
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How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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Independent Thinking Can’t Be Force-Fed
The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world.
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Afghanistan, Again? Unlearned Lessons of America’s Longest War
Congress rejected constitutional alternatives in favor of remaking a nation. Abroad, as at home, lawmakers cannot manufacture preferred social outcomes simply by spending more money.
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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The Anti-Federalist Warning About America’s Debt Crisis
Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.
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Huey Long’s Populism Is Back In Fashion
JD Vance’s admiration for Huey Long reveals how readily today’s populist right embraces the high spending and economic control it once condemned on the left.
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Fear Is Testing Freedom Again
America answered the terror of 9/11 by making every citizen more visible to the state. Will our genuine fears of AI be used to erode liberty and privacy even further?
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The Right’s Long March Toward Illiberalism
Laura K. Field’s ‘Furious Minds’ traces the intellectual evolution of the New Right and the ideas driving its rejection of liberalism.
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How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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•
Debt Jubilees Only Change Who Pays
A debt jubilee can erase an obligation on paper, but it cannot erase the underlying economic cost.
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•
Independent Thinking Can’t Be Force-Fed
The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world.