History

“The Economist” Rewrites History

In last Saturday’s print edition of The Economist magazine (left), staff writers attempted to compare today’s Internet with the publication of Martin Luther’s...

Bob Adelmann December 21, 2011

Bill of Rights Day: a Day of Celebration or of Mourning?

Bob Adelmann December 16, 2011

The Cato Institute’s newspaper ad reminding citizens that December 15th was Bill of Rights Day summarized the desperate shape those first ten amendments to the...

Faith of the Founding Fathers

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 9, 2011

Since the early days of this Republic, various of our Founding Fathers were accused of being irreligious, impious, and even atheist. Those accusations...

Remember WHAT about Pearl Harbor?

Jack Kenny December 7, 2011

Most shifts in history do not come with easy-to-remember dates associated with them. I could not tell you exactly when the U.S. war...

Forbes: Rich Nations Go Broke by Overpromising and Overspending

Bob Adelmann December 1, 2011

Cato Institute senior fellow Jim Powell wrote in Forbes magazine about the inevitable and predictable decline of rich nations that debauched their currencies...

75th Anniversary of the Anti-comintern Pact

Bruce Walker November 25, 2011

Moderns who rely upon conventional history have been spoon-fed many historical myths, which are indispensable to the perpetuation of statist collectivism and all...

Niall Ferguson Ignores God-given Rights

Bob Adelmann November 11, 2011

Niall Ferguson (left), professor at Harvard and the London School of Economics, summarized his latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest for Newsweek...

Robert Taft: Count Him Conservative

Jack Kenny October 28, 2011

If Robert Taft had been a baseball player instead of a United States Senator, he might have led the league in left-handed compliments....

How Would George Washington Counsel Us Today?

T. Dan Tolleson October 26, 2011

Rev. Mark Collins (left) of Yorktown, Texas, enjoys a national reputation as a portrayer of George Washington. Since July 4, 2002, Rev. Collins has...

Solyndra’s Bankruptcy and the Failure of 19th-century Steam Subsidies

Brian Koenig October 19, 2011

The social and economic upheavals caused by environmental subsidies, as seen in the demise of Solyndra and other energy companies, are devastating but...

So Much to Give: The Legacy of Garman Kimmell

John J. Dwyer October 14, 2011

It is a classic story of Americana, with all the excitement, dreams, struggle, disappointment, ingenuity, resilience, triumph, love, loss, and enduring lessons common...

Military Commissions Throughout U.S. History

Thomas R. Eddlem September 28, 2011

Military commissions have always been controversial in U.S. history, and no more so than in the past 10 years. Military commissions have traditionally...