History
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The Coup In Search of a Philosophy
Karl Marx’s greatest legacy was not his economics, but the institutions that gave his revolutionary ideas a second life.
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Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.
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The Post-Liberals Can’t Have Tocqueville
Tocqueville believed liberty depended on virtue — but he trusted free institutions, not the state, to cultivate it.
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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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The Coup In Search of a Philosophy
Karl Marx’s greatest legacy was not his economics, but the institutions that gave his revolutionary ideas a second life.
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•
Adam Smith’s Forgotten Theory of Artistic Independence
The great economist saw markets not as a threat to culture, but as the institution that allowed artists to achieve unprecedented freedom.
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•
The Post-Liberals Can’t Have Tocqueville
Tocqueville believed liberty depended on virtue — but he trusted free institutions, not the state, to cultivate it.
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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.