History
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Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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‘Guns Versus Butter’: Tracing the Dark Origins of a Classic Economic Model
The phrase’s apparent origins in Nazi Germany — and its grim use during the 1930s and 1940s — highlight a basic truth: prioritizing guns over butter ultimately imposes the cost of lower living standards on ordinary citizens.
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Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.
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Revolutions Worlds Apart: Why America Chose Liberty and France Chose Terror
Both the American and French Revolutions promised “power to the people.” One delivered it; the other descended into bloodshed and chaos. Why?
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America Doesn’t Need a New East India Company
From semiconductors to artificial intelligence, modern proposals for public ownership risk repeating the mistakes Smith identified 250 years ago.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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Roddie Edmonds and the Power of Saying No
Liberty depends on individuals saying no to power, especially when authority demands moral compromise, as one American officer proved behind barbed wire in World War II.
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Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.
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The Bitter Lessons of Sugar Control in World War I
Herbert Hoover’s wartime sugar program generated shortages that led to expanding rationing systems and increasingly centralized control over the allocation of sugar.
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Rereading the Declaration in an Age of Polarization
A new collection from Civitas explores old arguments about what the Declaration means — and who gets to define the nation’s founding ideals.
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‘Guns Versus Butter’: Tracing the Dark Origins of a Classic Economic Model
The phrase’s apparent origins in Nazi Germany — and its grim use during the 1930s and 1940s — highlight a basic truth: prioritizing guns over butter ultimately imposes the cost of lower living standards on ordinary citizens.
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Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.
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Revolutions Worlds Apart: Why America Chose Liberty and France Chose Terror
Both the American and French Revolutions promised “power to the people.” One delivered it; the other descended into bloodshed and chaos. Why?
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America Doesn’t Need a New East India Company
From semiconductors to artificial intelligence, modern proposals for public ownership risk repeating the mistakes Smith identified 250 years ago.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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Roddie Edmonds and the Power of Saying No
Liberty depends on individuals saying no to power, especially when authority demands moral compromise, as one American officer proved behind barbed wire in World War II.
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•
Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.
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•
The Bitter Lessons of Sugar Control in World War I
Herbert Hoover’s wartime sugar program generated shortages that led to expanding rationing systems and increasingly centralized control over the allocation of sugar.