In their 1975 book The Age of Napoleon, Will and Ariel Durant argue that the Reign of Terror during the French revolution was sparked, in part, by price controls. The economy itself was a battlefield. The price controls established on... (...)
In the NY Times this weekend they had an article about a one man show by Danny Hoch. The topic of his show was gentrification, and how it impacted natives of New York City. In the article they...
Challenging the myth that society would be improved if governed by "intellectuals," Thomas Sowell -- writing in today's Washington Times -- says that "It would be no feat to fill a big book with all...
And they don't even try to hide it.One minute before the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I took its last American victim.Henry Gunther was hit...
Bryan Caplan lists the 21 things Herbert Hoover mentioned in a 1932 speech just before the election that Hoover claimed help save the economy. Bryan is making the point that Hoover wasn't a free...