Unbelievably, in 2025, walking among us are people, many of them young and college-educated, who believe the Industrial Revolution (spawned by the liberal Enlightenment) was a disaster for most of mankind. They yearn for what they imagine was the tranquil, plentiful,...
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The Allies Could Have Done More, and Chose Not To
by Clark Patterson | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, History
Over the last year, a renewed controversy has arisen over the morality of World War II. For the last eighty years, World War II has been sold in the West as "The Good War" in which the United Kingdom and the United States, in spite of committing some war crimes, saved...
John Locke and the Libertarian Tradition
by Alan Mosley | Aug 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, History, Libertarianism
The Enlightenment produced many innovators, but few have left a legacy as contentious and influential as John Locke. Born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632, Locke wrote the political treatises that shaped England’s Glorious Revolution and later guided the...

The Hawk’s 1945 Project
by Clark Patterson | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
Two weeks ago at The Free Press (TFP), Rebeccah L. Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute wrote a 3,000-word article critiquing conservative disapproval of President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran last month. Heinrichs linked this conservative denunciation of Trump’s...
Robert Taft Foresaw the Dangers of NATO
by James Rushmore | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
On July 26, 1949, Ohio Senator Robert Taft delivered a speech in which he explicated his reasons for voting against ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty. His remarks included the following: "If we undertake to arm all the nations around Russia from Norway on the...
Industrial Capitalism and Its Critics
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, History
The nineteenth century marked the most dramatic leap forward in human welfare ever witnessed. It was a century defined not by aristocrats or emperors, but by coal, cotton, contracts, and capitalists. In his lectures “War, Peace, and the Industrial Revolution” and “The...
TGIF: What Is Capitalism?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 25, 2025 | Economics, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
So, what is capitalism? The answer will depend on who's being asked. Language, like markets, basic law, and customs, is a spontaneous order. No one plans it. Words drift in their meaning in ways that probably can’t be fully explained. Language is a tool that people...
TGIF: Israel and Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a key figure in the development of the Zionist movement, which led to the founding of Israel in 1948. After breaking from mainline Zionism, Jabotinsky, born in Odessa (Ukraine), established Revisionist Zionism, a more openly...