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Latest Articles: Historical
Top Warnings from the Antifederalist Brutus
Post Date: 2023-08-23 19:20:01 by Charles_Byrd
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In his series of essays during the ratification debates, the Anti- federalist writer Brutus repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting the proposed federal government would end up exercising “infinite” and “incomprehensible” power. Like everyone else, Brutus didn’t get everything right. But some of what he predicted may sound absolutely prophetic. Click for Full Text!
What Orson Welles and "War of the Worlds" taught us about economic panic
Post Date: 2023-08-14 20:34:18 by Charles_Byrd
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Eighty years ago Tuesday night, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater went on the radio and panicked people coast to coast with these words: “I can see peering out of that black hole two luminous disks … are they eyes? It might be a face. It might be … (shout of awe).” Click for Full Text!
How FDR's 1933 Gold Executive Orders Impacted Families on a Personal Level
Post Date: 2023-08-14 19:18:26 by Charles_Byrd
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When I was a young child, both sides of my extended family played cards from after dinner to late at night. The men played Poker and the women played Bridge and Canasta. We kids ran around between the card tables. But I sat on my dad's lap. Their talk was all about politics. (In those days the conversations were civil.) Click for Full Text!
Why Rome Collapsed: Lessons For the Present
Post Date: 2023-08-14 19:11:08 by Charles_Byrd
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Identifying why the western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD has been a parlor game for at least two centuries, since Edward Gibbon published his monumental The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged). Gibbon concluded Christianity had a major role in weakening the Empire, a view few today share. Part of the fun of the parlor game is trying to identify the one thing that pushed it over the cliff: poisoning from lead pipes and wine goblets being a famous example that has been discounted by modern historians. Click for Full Text!
The Churchill Legend
Post Date: 2023-08-13 02:14:28 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week a Palm Beach friend, a country club Republican, gave me a copy of the Weekly Standard. She urged me to read “A World in Crisis, what the thirties tell us about today” by its opinion editor, Matthew Continetti. The predicate of this overly long article seems to be that the fate of the universe hinged upon a little-known traffic accident involving Winston Churchill on the upper east side of Manhattan in the early 1930’s. Unlike a Thomas Hardy novel, in this instance a chance mishap worked out for the best. Or so Continetti would have the reader assume. Churchill was crossing Fifth Avenue at 76th Street in the late evening of December 13th, 1931 on his way to Bernard ...
Black Ghosts in the White House
Post Date: 2023-08-09 02:13:56 by Charles_Byrd
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From the very onset of America’s European colonization, what would ultimately become the United States was never really a closely united nation. For over a century prior to their declaration of independence and secession from British rule, the American colonies in the South had numerous deep-seated disputes with their Northern counterparts over a number of issues. Many of these arguments were geographic in nature and in 1763, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania appointed two English astronomers, Charles Mason of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and his assistant Jeremiah Dixon, to chart an official boundary line between the four colonies. Over a decade later, other ...
78 Years Ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: What Oppenheimer Wrought
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:27:50 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s been 78 years since the United States dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. While antiwar activists and nuclear weapon opponents have made great efforts to ensure the barbaric attack on Japanese civilians will not be forgotten, the present moment presents a unique opportunity to consider the ominous anniversary in light of a host of new perspectives. Not only does the world stand at the cusp of a potential new nuclear war, but the impact, consequences and relevance of such weapons have reached a new high in the cultural zeitgeist. The release of Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, “Oppenheimer,” which details the life of the ...
Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization
Post Date: 2023-08-02 21:18:03 by Charles_Byrd
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The fragmentation, simplification and localization of the post-Imperial era offers us lessons we ignore at our peril. There is an entire industry devoted to "why the Roman Empire collapsed," but the post-collapse era may offer us higher value lessons. The post- collapse era, long written off as The Dark Ages, is better understood as a period of adaptation to changing conditions, specifically, the relocalization and simplification of the economy and governance. Click for Full Text!
The woke war on the Enlightenment
Post Date: 2023-08-01 01:02:41 by Charles_Byrd
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Too many who lean left today claim that the Enlightenment was the ideology of colonialism. Some academics, for instance, have claimed that it was a racist, colonial endeavour from the outset. That the Enlightenment needs to be ‘decolonised’. One piece in Harvard Magazine is even entitled ‘How the Enlightenment led to colonialism’. Do those who make this claim imagine there was no colonialism before the Enlightenment? Presumably not, but it’s important to understand how something so false could come to seem true. (Raise a glass to the virtue of trying to understand those you disagree with.) Click for Full Text!
It's a Historical Fact That Minimum Wage Laws Are Rooted in Racism
Post Date: 2023-07-31 22:23:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. In recent years, states across the country have passed $15 wage floors, while others continue to explore the issue. The age-old lesson of Econ 101, that, to quote Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in 1998, “the higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment,” is no longer considered rock solid. Click for Full Text!
Raico on Liberty and Its Adversaries
Post Date: 2023-07-26 23:02:30 by Charles_Byrd
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I first met historian Ralph Raico at a Cato Institute Summer Seminar in 1990. Like George Walsh, Raico was an old-school scholar who published modestly but knew extravagantly. I hung out with Raico at two or three seminars, and he amazed me. The man could expound at length on any historical topic I threw at him, and knew more economics and philosophy than most professors of either subject. Click for Full Text!
Ashamed to be an American?
Post Date: 2023-07-25 21:03:11 by Charles_Byrd
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This is the era of the ungrateful American. This is the time when some Americans pour contempt on their country – even before the whole world. For example, last week, at the opening of the World Cup of women’s soccer in Vietnam, all the Vietnamese players showed their pride for their country. But, as the New York Post notes, “Most members of the US women’s soccer team stayed silent during the national anthem.” Click for Full Text!
U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway
Post Date: 2023-07-25 00:17:26 by Charles_Byrd
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At a time when Americans are reassessing so many painful aspects of our nation’s past, it is an opportune moment to have an honest national conversation about our use of nuclear weapons on Japanese cities in August 1945. The fateful decision to inaugurate the nuclear age fundamentally changed the course of modern history, and it continues to threaten our survival. As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock warns us, the world is now closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time since 1947. The accepted wisdom in the United States for the last 75 years has been that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later was the only way ...
Lessons from The Great Depression
Post Date: 2023-07-22 01:59:03 by Charles_Byrd
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Longtime correspondent Ishabaka recently shared key takeaways from a classic on-the-ground account of The Great Depression in the U.S.:, The Great Depression, a Diary. Another reader reminded me that The Great Depression was global, and occurred earlier that 1929 in other nations and had equally (or even more) calamitous consequences elsewhere. That said, humans are running Wetware 1.0 everywhere, so it's likely that many of these lessons are applicable to the collapse of speculative asset bubbles in other economies and eras-- for instance, the global economy's Everything Bubble of 2023. Click for Full Text!
How East Germany's Stasi Perfected Mass Surveillance
Post Date: 2023-07-22 01:36:17 by Charles_Byrd
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The state has a monopoly on violence. However, abusive repression harms government credibility and alienates public support in the long run. A more subtle and effective way to exercise power is to surveil the population and to prevent open manifestations of discontent. This article analyzes the case of the of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) Ministry for State Security (MfS), also known as the Stasi. The thesis is that an effective surveillance regime makes the use of open violence less urgent because the population is nudged to discipline itself. Click for Full Text!
Mises and Nationalism
Post Date: 2023-07-22 00:12:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Nationalism is a potent force in the modern world, and it is not surprising that some libertarians have been attracted to it. Indeed, in some circles the slogan “Blood and Soil” has come into to use to denote a people’s attachment to the land. It should be noted that although this slogan was used by the Nazis, especially by Walter Darré, it did not originate with them but was common among German nationalists such as Oswald Spengler. It would be wrong, then, to think that libertarians who use it today are signaling a covert admiration for the Third Reich and its führer. That being said, the attitude it expresses was decidedly not that of Ludwig von Mises. Mises ...
Luther vs Karlstadt: The Other Leipzig Disputation
Post Date: 2023-07-16 02:01:03 by Charles_Byrd
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This month, we mark the 504th anniversary of the Leipzig Disputation, an academic debate held at the University of Leipzig between Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt of the University of Wittenberg (the challenger) and Johann Eck of the University of Ingolstadt. Martin Luther also participated, as his statements were at the center of the dispute. The event is remembered as a key moment in Reformation history, as it was the first time Luther publicly acknowledged that both popes and church councils had made errors. (Philip Bartlet has written an excellent primer on the Leipzig Disputation that can be found here.) However, that is not the only reason the Leipzig Disputation was significant. It ...
'Insulting': Disney+ invents person's homosexuality in famous true story
Post Date: 2023-07-10 19:20:56 by Charles_Byrd
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How far will Hollywood "progressives" go to advance their agenda of celebrating all things LGBT? Evidently, as far as taking a real historical figure and making him homosexual – with zero evidence – as a tool to inject "queer" history into the storyline. Click for Full Text!
Thanks for nothing, DEA. Fifty years later, drugs are deadlier and more abundant than ever
Post Date: 2023-07-10 19:16:15 by Charles_Byrd
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As of this week, the United States has "enjoyed" half a century under the thumb of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a wing of the Department of Justice established in 1973 by former President Richard Nixon. Instead of truly addressing the deepening drug problem in the U.S., the DEA has worsened public health outcomes related to drug use, promoted racially stigmatizing policies, stomped on civil liberties and burned stacks of cash in a vain effort to control the uncontrollable. There's no denying the drug situation in the U.S. is dire. Approximately 1 million people have died of overdoses since 1999, many of these deaths driven by powerful opioids like illicit ...
The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt
Post Date: 2023-07-10 02:19:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Like many people my age (62), I was taught both at home and in school that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president. FDR, I was taught, saved American democracy in the 1930s with the New Deal and led the nation to victory against Hitlerism in the 1940s. That view of FDR was reinforced by many television documentaries and history books. And virtually every poll of historians — including the most recent C-Span poll — places FDR in the top five of all U.S. presidents (usually in third place behind Lincoln and Washington). This is so despite persuasive revisionist historical works that paint a very different picture of FDR’s presidency. Let’s start with the New Deal. ...
Remembering the Dead White Founders
Post Date: 2023-07-08 01:06:12 by Charles_Byrd
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Another Independence Day is here. There will be fireworks, hamburgers, hot dogs, people getting drunk. I guess people still get drunk on holidays. Most Americans realize that July 4 has something to do with our history. But in their dumbed down, historically illiterate minds, the details aren’t exactly clear. As usual, I scanned my cable guide, and found the same dearth of television programs about the founding of this country that I always do. On July 4th, you think they’d have some special programming, like they do for Juneteenth or Pride Month. But no, it’s just the 1776 musical, and that’s about it. If they were to air anything about Thomas Jefferson, or the other ...
The Real Meaning of the Fourth of July
Post Date: 2023-07-05 01:13:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Contrary to popular myth, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not great Americans. Instead, they were great Englishmen. In fact, they were as much English citizens as Americans today are American citizens. It’s easy to forget that the revolutionaries in 1776 were people who took up arms against their own government. So how is it that these men are considered patriots? Well, the truth is that their government didn’t consider them patriots at all. Their government considered them to be bad guys — traitors, all of whom deserved to be hanged for treason. Click for Full Text!
A Declaration of Independence Against Big Government
Post Date: 2023-07-05 01:09:58 by Charles_Byrd
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The Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. What is too often forgotten is that what the Founding Fathers argued against in the Declaration was the heavy and intrusive hand of big government. Click for Full Text!
Three Cheers for July Second
Post Date: 2023-07-05 00:54:45 by Charles_Byrd
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Today we celebrate the greatest day in our national history. Sound ridiculous? Not to John Adams, who in 1776 wrote to his wife, Abigail: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. . . . It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfire and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more." At least he got the pomp and parade part right. Click for Full Text!
ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, IDEOLOGY, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1974)
Post Date: 2023-07-04 00:46:14 by Charles_Byrd
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It is part of the inescapable condition of the historian that he must make estimates and judgments about human motivation even though he cannot ground his judgments in absolute and apodictic certainty. If, for example, we find that Nelson Rockefeller made a secret gift of $650,000 to Dr. William J. Ronan, we can choose to interpret Rockefeller's motivation in one of at least two ways: we can conclude, as did that eminent student of contemporary politics Malcolm Wilson, that Nelson made this and similar gifts purely as "an act of love"; or we can conclude that some sort of political *quid pro quo* was involved in the transaction. In my view, the good historian (1) cannot escape ...
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