The men who launched the American Revolution (1763–1791) were not saints — there were slaveholders, speculators, and schemers among them — but they wagered everything on a set of Enlightenment propositions that no government had ever been founded on before:… Read More ›
Some 75 million U.S. citizens will vote for Donald Trump this time around. That’s much more than the total populations of, say, Australia (27m), Canada (42m), or Korea (52m), for example. Why do they vote for Trump? It is not… Read More ›
Preamble I am forever wondering whether I really am a pinko leftist Commie Canadian Euro-Brussels bootlicker who cried into my eco tote bag when Hillary lost… or whether I’m just a rational centrist who realizes that progressive tax regimes help… Read More ›
This Thursday is the Fourth of July. Every Fourth of July, I say a little prayer of thanks to France. France bought from the fledgling U.S. its first-ever tranche of federal bonds, thereby giving Washington enough cash to buy guns…. Read More ›
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