When The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression appeared originally in France in 1997, it caused a firestorm of controversy.
History
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 were religious,...
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.
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.
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.
The Pinochet Slur Against Free Market Scholars: Academic Repetition of a Lie
In each and every case, the aforementioned authors carelessly repeat a claim that they want to believe and that affirms their political priors. No effort is made to check sources or investigate whether the claim itself is reputable.
Alexander Hamilton’s Liberalism: Distinguishing Fact and Myth
Hamilton is an Enlightened, classical liberal, a more consistent champion of rights and liberty than any other Founder, thus an inspiring model for contemporary friends of liberty.
The Mythology Behind The Dishonest “New History of Capitalism” Slavery Smear
Edward Baptist, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others of the “New History of Capitalism” demonstrate their ignorance in their dishonest attempts to associate American capitalism with slavery.
The Real Spirit of the Declaration of Independence
What is America, and what does it represent?
Reparations: Free Blacks and “Native Americans” Owned Slaves
A staggering 28 percent of free blacks in the Crescent City owned slaves.
The Battle Over America: Individual Freedom Versus Democratic Statism
The idea that there was a time in American history when many more matters of daily life were considered the domain of personal decision-making and voluntary collaborative community effort has mostly been erased from people’s memory. We live in a time when an...
Slavery: Neither Strange Nor Peculiar
People who use slavery to trash the founders have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool they use in their attempt to reduce respect for our Constitution.
America Through The Eyes of a Foreigner in the 19th Century
I recently have been reading a number of books written by European travellers who visited the United States, particularly, in the early and mid-decades of the 19th century.
Capitalism and Exploitation of Third World Countries
To then accuse capitalism of causing the poverty — while in the very act of eradicating it — is to commit both a historical error and a profound injustice.
The Secret History of Modern Liberalism: How Socialists Hijacked The Word “Liberal”
In the 19th century, liberalism was identified with the belief in and the defense of individual liberty in various spheres of life.
Slavery: What They Didn’t Teach in My High School
African tribes who captured other tribes sold them into slavery.
Lessons From the Past
The opportunities open to my young relatives in Harlem — and to other young blacks elsewhere — were not nearly as good as the opportunities open to me back in 1948.
Miseducated or Stupid? American Millennials For Communism and Socialism
A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country.
Grateful for Not Starving: Why The Pilgrims at Plymouth Switched From Socialism to Capitalism
The Pilgrims nearly starved to death. They’d tried to farm collectively — the entire community owning all the land and sharing everything, like socialists.
The Rise of Capitalism and the Dignity of Labor
Capitalism has brought about growing prosperity for the human condition while cultivating a more polite society.
Still Haunting The World: Karl Marx and Marxism 200 Years Later
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany.