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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.
The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was...
Herbert Spencer is best known for the term, “Social Darwinism,” but his writings on free markets and law remain brilliantly relevant today. While not...
By appealing to the self-interest of buyers and sellers, capitalism foils attempts by lawmakers to create racially constructed limits on voluntary exchange. Capitalism undermines...
Critics of capitalism claim that private enterprise gives workers the unhappy choice of either working difficult, low-paying jobs or outright starving. The claim is...
The 1866 civil rights law was historical not because it promised racial equality but because it changed the legal relationship between the states and...
The degrowth movement seeks to mitigate climate change by ending economic growth, which is really a move to engage in large-scale depopulation.