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While this page has covered rail boondoggles in California and elsewhere, we also look at Seattle, which looked at building a monorail system, but...
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While this page has covered rail boondoggles in California and elsewhere, we also look at Seattle, which looked at building a monorail system, but...
Mark Thornton discusses a lesser-known factor in the American Civil War: the Confederate “impressment” policy and its impact at Vicksburg.
Herbert Spencer is best known for the term, “Social Darwinism,” but his writings on free markets and law remain brilliantly relevant today. While not...
The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was...
With the resurrection of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower project set for completion around 2027, could another global economic crisis be imminent?
With all of the current angst about tariffs and other issues, it is easy to forget that there are missile silos around the world...
The ante bellum abolitionist movement ranged from peaceful abolitionist societies in the South to groups in New England advocating violence and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the...
Did the Marshall Plan save Europe or enrich crony capitalists? Patrick Newman exposes how corporate welfare, hidden deals, and corruption shaped postwar policy, with...
David Gordon explores historian Charles Beard’s forgotten warnings and their lasting lessons on liberty and foreign policy.
Why did the South lose the Civil War? Mark Thornton argues Vicksburg—not Gettysburg—was key, revealing how Confederate economic failures sealed their fate.
Hunt Tooley reveals the shocking story of how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.
While Democratic Socialism is the darling of the political left, all forms of socialism have come from the brutal model first imposed upon Russia...
Ilana Mercer dismantles Israel’s “Hasbara” myths, exposing harsh truths behind Gaza’s suffering—and the moral complicity of America in enabling atrocities.
Tom DiLorenzo exposes the dangerous “Treasury of Virtue” that justifies endless wars and imperialism.