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The New Deal
The New Deal
Certain themes that relate to the New Deal between 1933 and 1938 ended in 1938 when FDR moved on to repair all the probl... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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Historians, the State and Liberty
Historians, the State and Liberty
The opinion that is dished out in textbooks every year by academic historians is ideologically mostly left-liberalism or... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era
The Progressive Era covered the turn of the 19th-20th centuries until about WWI. It delivered such delights as the Feder... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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Historians and the Welfare-Warfare State
Historians and the Welfare-Warfare State
Murray Rothbard popularized the concept of the welfare-warfare state. He didn’t like either of them. He knew that if the... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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Natural Rights
Natural Rights
Natural law does not depend directly on God’s will. Natural law goes back to at least the scholastics and perhaps Thomas... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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The Rise of the Nation-State
The Rise of the Nation-State
Most of what is said about nation-states is not true. They are neither democracies nor republics nor nations nor states.... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West
The European Miracle was one in which humans achieved sustained growth for the first time on earth. Why Europe? Because ... Read more
16 Oct 2018
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Southern Secession and Reconstruction
Southern Secession and Reconstruction
You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported th... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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Puritan Revolution and Republicanism
Puritan Revolution and Republicanism
The transforming ideology of the American Revolution consists of four elements: liberalism, republicanism, English law, ... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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Theory and History
Theory and History
Economic theory is essential for understanding history. It is difficult to interpret data without economic theory. Theor... Read more
1 Mar 2004
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