The Industrial Revolution: Who Planned It?
Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum . Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest...
Economic History
Work Hard and Read Hoffer
Eric Hoffer was born 120 years today. Or 124: as Tom Bethell argued in his biography of Hoffer, the latter’s...
Woody Holton’s Not So Hidden History
Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, has written a nearly 800-page tome entitled Liberty is...
Back to gold?
People occasionally ask me whether it would make sense to go back to the gold standard. Most economists think that...
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
Editor’s note: Subscribers to our No Due Date book club have been enjoying Deirdre McCloskey and Art Carden’s Leave Me Alone...
Do you remember 1973?
I do. I remember the rate of inflation rising dramatically. I recall people offering these explanations:1. A Soviet crop failure...
Enclosing Wordle
with Lynne Kiesling One of the few things that has made this particular bleak midwinter bearable has been the sudden...
Schools Should Teach Distinctions
My letter to the Carmel Pine Cone was the lead letter in the November 5-11 edition. It’s about a local...
Myths we teach our children
When we teach false things to our students there’s usually an explanation. Thus, today it’s trendy to teach about the...
The Truman Fabrication
The Hell You Say, Harry. The FPA came into being because former president Harry Truman made a series of representations...
