World History

Frédéric Bastiat died before he could finish Economic Harmonies, but what he did write is an important promotion of liberty.

World elites gathered in yet another attempt to remake the world in a different image, with so-called climate change invoked as the catalyst for the meeting. As one can imagine, their "good" society is not very good for those who are not elites.

Never forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day.

A century ago, the German reichsmark went into freefall as the most famous hyperinflation in history exploded the German economy. The repercussions still are with us.

British conservative critics of industrialization invented new terms like "wage slavery," "factory slavery," and "white slavery." Much of the conservatives' terminology and their arguments would later be adopted by socialists. 

It is only among radical classical liberals where we see a sustained support for a natural right to secession and self-determination, consistently applied. This sets the liberals apart from nationalist and conservative secessionists.

Ryan and Zachary make some guesses about where things are headed in 2024 for both Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.

While Austria is not the free-market republic Ludwig von Mises hoped it would be, the country has made many steps in the right direction, freeing markets and protecting private property.

Coal drove the development of a whole new way of cooking and a radically different diet. A menu based upon coal-fired food was the cuisine that accompanied industrialization. Food and fuel were intricately linked in a fossil fuel-burning age.

Between war weariness and the inability of the US government to pay war bills, reality is going to come to the fore even if Washington doesn't like it.