History
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A Dream of Freedom: The Enlightenment’s Unfinished Business
The American Founding launched a revolutionary idea: rights exist first, and government exists to secure them. It’s beautiful, transformative… and perpetually unfinished.
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Why I Pledge Allegiance to the Constitution — Not the Flag
The pledge demands patriotic devotion. The skeptical Constitution builds limits on power. Only one protects liberty.
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The W.E.B. Du Bois We Lost: Marginal Economist?
The famous sociologist was once a student of markets and wages. His later leftist radicalism was forged by institutional failure in the brutal Jim Crow South.
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New York’s Death Wish
History — and a gritty 1970s vigilante flick — offers sobering lessons about what happens when public institutions fail at their most basic task: keeping citizens safe.
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7 Books to Read in 2026 on Economics and History
A curated list of new and notable books exploring economic growth, human progress, and the forces that shape civilizations.
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What a 1980s Facial-Scar Experiment Shows About How We See Discrimination
Kleck and Strenta’s research suggests that what we expect from others often shapes how we think they see us.
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Evergreens and Embers: What the Solstice Teaches Us About Economic Renewal
We conserve capital, tend embers, make plans, and orient ourselves toward the future. Prosperity demands we tend the embers, rather than curse the cold.
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Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
Cities cannot be engineered from above — only grown from real human demand.
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To Make Luxury Affordable, Embrace Consumer Choice
“Wasteful” spending by the very wealthy is experimentation that eventually allows millions to enjoy the fruits of innovation.
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I Worked With Ronald Reagan. Here’s What He Really Thought About Tariffs
Ronald Reagan would have abhorred Trump’s tariffs. He believed presidents should rein in the Leviathan, not direct markets.
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A Dream of Freedom: The Enlightenment’s Unfinished Business
The American Founding launched a revolutionary idea: rights exist first, and government exists to secure them. It’s beautiful, transformative… and perpetually unfinished.
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Why I Pledge Allegiance to the Constitution — Not the Flag
The pledge demands patriotic devotion. The skeptical Constitution builds limits on power. Only one protects liberty.
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The W.E.B. Du Bois We Lost: Marginal Economist?
The famous sociologist was once a student of markets and wages. His later leftist radicalism was forged by institutional failure in the brutal Jim Crow South.
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New York’s Death Wish
History — and a gritty 1970s vigilante flick — offers sobering lessons about what happens when public institutions fail at their most basic task: keeping citizens safe.
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7 Books to Read in 2026 on Economics and History
A curated list of new and notable books exploring economic growth, human progress, and the forces that shape civilizations.
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What a 1980s Facial-Scar Experiment Shows About How We See Discrimination
Kleck and Strenta’s research suggests that what we expect from others often shapes how we think they see us.
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Evergreens and Embers: What the Solstice Teaches Us About Economic Renewal
We conserve capital, tend embers, make plans, and orient ourselves toward the future. Prosperity demands we tend the embers, rather than curse the cold.
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Saudi Arabia Didn’t Learn Anything From China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
Cities cannot be engineered from above — only grown from real human demand.
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To Make Luxury Affordable, Embrace Consumer Choice
“Wasteful” spending by the very wealthy is experimentation that eventually allows millions to enjoy the fruits of innovation.
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I Worked With Ronald Reagan. Here’s What He Really Thought About Tariffs
Ronald Reagan would have abhorred Trump’s tariffs. He believed presidents should rein in the Leviathan, not direct markets.