Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
History
The Strange World of Ivan Ivanov
A short yet hard-hitting indictment of the economic and political repression that so often follows from attempts to structure a society around Marxist ideology and centralized economic planning.
Fact Checking the New York Times’ 1619 Project and Its Critics
Was the American Revolution fought in defense of slavery? Was Abraham Lincoln a racial colonizationist or exaggerated egalitarian? Did slavery drive America’s economic growth and the emergence of American Capitalism? Did the 1619 Project seek adequate scholarly guidance in preparing its work?
1619 Project “New History” of Capitalism Collapses Under Scrutiny
Far from representing non-white scholarly voices and introducing challenges to a previously stagnant historiography of slavery, the NHC school is actually a stunning embodiment of everything it charges against its critics.
The Moral Meaning of the Berlin Wall
Life in the socialist utopia of East Germany was a waking nightmare.
Andrew Carnegie: An Intellectual Capitalist
Wealthy capitalist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an indefatigable steel tycoon—and he was also intellectual.
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
When The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression appeared originally in France in 1997, it caused a firestorm of controversy.
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
Thanks, Private Property!
Families will argue this Thanksgiving. Such arguments have a long tradition. The Pilgrims had clashing ideas about how to organize their settlement in the New World. The resolution of that debate made the first Thanksgiving possible. The Pilgrims...
Thanksgiving: The Producer’s Holiday
Thanksgiving celebrates man’s ability to produce.
Millennials for Communism
The horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were the result of a long evolution of ideas leading to a consolidation of power in the central government in the quest for “social justice.”
The Meaning of the Berlin Wall
On this 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should remember all that it represented as a symbol of tyranny under which the individual was marked with the label: property of the state.
Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
Lighthouses Were Private Until Government Took Them Over
There was nothing inherent to the lighthouse that made it a public good. It became a public good because government regulation made it so.
Correcting The “1619 Project”: America is Not A Democracy
In addition to not understanding our Constitution, Hannah-Jones’ article, like in most discussions of black history, fails to acknowledge that black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest span of time than any other racial group in mankind’s history.
America Was Made Poorer Because Of Slavery
America was not made richer from slavery. America was made poorer by slavery.
Capitalism vs. Slavery
Similarities between slavery and socialism, and indeed the aggressive anti-capitalist rhetoric of proslavery ideology, are seldom examined in the “New History of Capitalism” literature.
How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
Interest in the history of American capitalism is on the rise, although curiously this line of study is being advanced for anticapitalistic ideological reasons.
