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Mark Thornton discusses a lesser-known factor in the American Civil War: the Confederate “impressment” policy and its impact at Vicksburg.
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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...
Bob breaks down the recent Soho Forum immigration debate between Dave Smith and Alex Nowrasteh, clarifying the critical libertarian questions around property rights, open...
President Trump has made a lot of noise in the business community in the first few months of his administration. Unfortunately, his actions and...
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline...
The Usual Suspects from the American and European elites are claiming that Spain’s recent blackout was the result of unusual weather conditions. In truth,...
Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to...
Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline...
President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful...
Mark Thornton appears on Liberty and Finance with Elijah K. Johnson.