Topic: History

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How Twitter is Corrupting the History Profession

– August 29, 2019

Social media once held great promise as a means of facilitating scholarly exchange. Unfortunately, academics themselves are becoming some of its worst actors.

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The Courage to Be Utopian

– August 22, 2019

Liberalism says YES, and the cosmopolitan liberal order turns strangers into friends and enemies into partners.

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George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty

– August 19, 2019

Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.

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Economics Science Had Late-Scholastic Origins (Podcast)

– August 18, 2019

Economics as a science began to take shape in the late Middle Ages as theologians began to come to terms with laws operating within the material world to enhance human well being. 

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The Anti-Capitalist Ideology of Slavery

– August 16, 2019

The anti-capitalist ideology of southern slaveholders presents a conundrum for historians who erroneously equate the plantation economy with the free market.

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The Life and Times of Bagehot, the Greatest Victorian

– August 15, 2019

Bagehot would certainly not qualify as very libertarian — even though his contemporary raging in favor of free trade, unregulated banking, and minimum government might suggest so.

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The Three Errors of Conspiracy Theory, Even True Ones

– August 14, 2019

As the friend/enemy dichotomy intensifies, conspiracy theory advances, and not without evidence: the more politicized society becomes, the more conspiracies really do exist. 

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Have Two-Income Households Made Us Poorer?

– August 12, 2019

Ordinary Americans are indeed today much richer than they were during any imagined past golden age.

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The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?

– August 6, 2019

The founder of The Nation magazine would have completely rejected the Green New Deal as a socialist and illiberal disaster. 

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Crime, Punishment, and the State

– August 5, 2019

Problems with punishment will persist, but they will be more tractable when government’s always-feeble efforts can be concentrated where they matter most: the protection of human lives, limbs, and property.

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There Is Only One Adam Smith

– August 2, 2019

Smith demonstrated that if you really want to help other people, especially poor people, you need to support the growth of commercial society all over the globe.  

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Egregious Errors in The New Yorker’s Account of Financial History

– August 2, 2019

For a child of a banker, John Lanchester manages to get a lot of banking backwards.

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