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The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other fear is that it will bring…

Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado Novo’s demise, but anti-capitalist thinking still dominates…

While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the US economy into ruin. The latest Fed capers will not end well.

For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.

Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the role of the Fed and the…

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward him.

A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.

Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations, shaping views on policy.

For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise,…