History

  • A Tale of Two Statutes

    “In the end, Title IX has always had two faces. Either it is a law with content to be respected, or it is a blank slate whose meaning is in the eye of the beholder.” ~ Elizabeth Kaufer Busch

    A Tale of Two Statutes
  • Cold War Music: A Top Ten List

    “With the Fall of the Berlin Wall, we were neither red nor dead. Instead, we were alive and free, and poised – with the revolution in development economics of the 1990s – for the greatest advance in history in the global standard of living.” ~ Clifford F. Thies

    Cold War Music: A Top Ten List
  • Taming the Dictator Within, Part 2

    “Your experience of reality is directly related to the mindset of true or false individualism that you embrace. When you release your tight grip on your thinking, you allow your life to reveal what your Dictator Within has fabricated.” ~ Barry Brownstein

    Taming the Dictator Within, Part 2
  • Taming the Dictator Within, Part 1

    “Beware of treating human beings, in an economy or organization or your personal life, as problems to be solved. We are imperfect material; our errors are corrected in the course of a social process.” ~ Barry Brownstein

    Taming the Dictator Within, Part 1
  • Tony Soprano’s Critique of Identity Politics

    “Soprano is no role model for classic liberals because he made a living by extracting economics rents by fraud and force. But he reminds Americans that they are individual human beings first, Americans second, and who really cares about the rest?” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Tony Soprano’s Critique of Identity Politics
  • Old Oil Ads Were Reasonable on Climate Change

    “An impartial reading of them reveals rational commentary on the knowns and unknowns of energy and climate. The ads are hardly controversial.” ~ Robert L. Bradley Jr. & Richard Fulmer

    Old Oil Ads Were Reasonable on Climate Change
  • Black Land Ownership Following Emancipation

    “The problem in the South following emancipation wasn’t that blacks were unable to navigate a private property-based, market-oriented economy; but it was segregation, especially of the public schools, and Jim Crow laws in general.” ~ Clifford F. Thies

    Black Land Ownership Following Emancipation
  • Why Not Rebel?

    “Ironically, only in the United States and a few other relatively good places to live do people retain sufficient liberty to develop alternative governance systems capable of replacing existing ones, should that ever become necessary.” ~ Robert E. Wright

    Why Not Rebel?
  • When Classical Liberals Went to the Mountaintop

    “Overshadowing the proceedings was the specter of totalitarianism—not just the recently vanquished National Socialist variety but also the Communist version then enveloping Eastern Europe.” ~ Samuel Gregg

    When Classical Liberals Went to the Mountaintop
  • Oakeshott’s Countercultural Education

    “For Oakeshott, liberal education was always an adventure, never a duty or a burden. His insights are essential reading for anyone who desires to preserve and rejuvenate this most important adventure.” ~ Elizabeth Corey

    Oakeshott’s Countercultural Education
  • Do They Not Know?

    “Do today’s skeptics of free markets – whether these skeptics be full-on socialists or advocates of ‘mere’ industrial policy – have any accurate knowledge of economic history, of economics, or of human nature?” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

    Do They Not Know?
  • Whoopi, Maus, and 80 Years of American Jewry

    “It is now they, not Jews, who must take to heart the phrase ‘Never Again.’ My Gentile friends should ask themselves: If it comes to it, when the mobs come, will I take in and protect my Jewish friends?” ~ Daniel Asia

    Whoopi, Maus, and 80 Years of American Jewry