World History

Cecil Rhodes’s secret society and its American recruits.

Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers.

Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers.

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French Revolution. 

A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.

How socialists learned to work through institutions instead of throwing up barricades. It seems that America’s “democratic” socialists are repeating the same strategy.

The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it.

Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying the gold standard.

Months ago, the administration said the war's goals were regime change and the removal of all uranium from Iran. We never hear about that anymore because the war has failed to produce either goal. Instead, Trump calls for opening the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open before the war.

The stereotype of the Prussian as the militaristic, state-loving creature probably needs to be rethought. The history of Prussia and its people is more complicated than contemporary historians wish to admit.