Railroads, Robber Barons, and Unbridled Capitalism
When Matthew Josephson wrote The Robber Barons in 1934, he tipped his hand as to his personal prejudice against the capitalists of the...
History
Deporting Illegal Immigrants
Pardon me, but if I hear one more time that we can’t deport 12 million illegal aliens I’m headed for the backyard to...
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Glenn Beck: History Vindicated Joe McCarthy
Fox News host Glenn Beck aired an extraordinary program June 24 explaining how the facts released from the files of the FBI and...
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Kent State and the Perfect Coup
In May 1970, news was made at Ohio's Kent State University when campus police and the National Guard attempted to wrest control from...
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Where Else But Armenia? World’s Oldest Leather Shoe Found
In the country of Mt. Ararat, where the Bible says Noah’s Ark rested when the Great Flood subsided, there now is news of...
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Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire
The proud Roman general stood with his commanders and retinue as the wild hillsmen, dressed in the ragged but still-flamboyant clothes of corsairs,...
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Amtrak and the Railroads
Amtrak and its lobbyists at the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently invited us to commemorate the third annual National Train Day...
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Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching for the distinctive gilded-stemmed masts of their lightweight vessels,...
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All for Naught: The Battle of Peleliu
Studs Terkel called World War II the “good war.” If any war could be called good, then the Second World War is at...
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Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security
Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling the health insurance system is about to become law,...
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John Barry: True Father of the American Navy
Who was the “brilliant child of the wind and waves” who fired the inaugural volley at the Royal Navy’s pride by being the...
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Warsaw and Lodz: A Tale of Two Cities
One of the 19th century’s most famous poets, Lord Byron, compressed into two lines of immortal verse an essential truth about how self-respecting...
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Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame
Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds and imaginations of free-market economists from the Austrian School,...
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Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking
The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the...
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1960: A Year That Changed America
The lives of most Americans in 1960 were markedly different from a decade earlier in at least one significant respect. A great many...
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