1. The Constitution and the Fate of the Nation
(News/Blog)

Former Speaker of the House and probably future Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has written a very interesting column for the Washington Post arguing in support of his position that the ...

2. How to Stop Inflation
(News/Blog)

The good news on the economy this month, according to news reports, is the modest level of inflation. On this matter, CNN reported that consumer prices "rose 2.6% during the past twelve months, according ...

3. Met Life On Inflation, Circa 1959
(News/Blog)

The following text ran as a full page advertisement for Metropolitan Life in the March 30, 1959 issue of Life magazine: There IS A Cure For Inflation To most people, inflation means that it costs more ...

4. Socialism, What a Joke!
(News/Blog)

As our political “leaders” contemplate how best to shackle us with various socialist programs (government health care, bailouts, cap and trade, etc., etc.) it’s good to reflect on just how abysmally horrible ...

5. Greenspan and the Real Cause of the Financial Crisis
(News/Blog)

Another major financial crisis is inevitable, that is the word from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. Speaking to the BBC, Greenspan said," The crisis will happen again, but it will be different." The ...

6. In Defense of Conservatism in the Obama Era
(News/Blog)

Over across the pond today, in the now irrelevant dried and hollowed out husk of what remains of the British Empire, blogger Michael Tomasky, in the virtual pages of the Guardian newspaper's online edition, says ...

7. What To Do About the Economy
(Archive/Opinion)

Where is Milton Friedman (pictured) when you need him? For that matter, where is Hans Sennholz? Both men were great economists who understood clearly what inflation was and why it should be avoided. ...

8. Future Tech
(Archive/Features)

... manipulate the genotype of many plants in order to make them more productive when grown in a systematic way. Take corn, for instance. Today this common staple bears scarcely any resemblance to its ancient, ...

9. Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae
(Archive/Features)

Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, which appeared in theaters on March 9, 2007, put the climactic battle between the ancient Persians and the Spartans on the big screen with startling special effects. ...

10. The Lessons of Ancient Rome
(Archive/Reviews)

... FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC BY STEVE BONTA In many ways the modern world is but an echo of ancient Rome. For that we have to thank Francesco Petrarch. A 14th Century Italian scholar, poet, and freelance ...

11. The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Archive/Reviews)

... resulted in the infamous Agri Deserti, the phenomenon of the “deserted lands.” This phenomenon no doubt did occur in some areas. Ancient texts make reference to it and historians were quick, too quick ...

12. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on the threat posed by global warming, took home two Oscars at the recently held 79th annual Academy Awards. The Academy awarded the filmmakers with the Oscar ...

13. The Fall of Rome
(Archive/Features)

A monk or a priest or an emissary. “I wonder what I have become this day,” the man in the garb of a priest thought as he walked the muddy path between rows of shoddy hovels. Ulfilas, the Bishop, scratched ...

14. The Aral Sea - High and Dry
(Archive/Features)

The scene is nothing short of apocalyptic. A fleet of fishing vessels, seven or eight in all, lies immobile in the desert sands of central Asia. Most of the ships are in tight formation, seeming to jockey ...

15. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

... ancients and especially with those of the Renaissance and later who sought to investigate the natural world precisely because doing so was a means of coming to a faith informed by reason. The natural world, ...

16. Duranty’s Lethal Lies
(Archive/Features)

When it was discovered that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s work was shot through with plagiarism, fraud, and fabrication, the BBC described the affair as “the biggest scandal in the history of ...

17. How A Ruler Ought to Govern His State
(Archive/Opinion)

In a 14th century letter bearing the same title as this column, Francesco Petrarch, the father of the Italian Renaissance, warned the ruler of the Italian city-state of Padua: “Every people strives to ...

18. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

On August 11th, 2000, Ron Brownstein, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, boarded Air Force One to meet with President Bill Clinton. In the ensuing interview, Mr. Brownstein asked Mr. Clinton the following ...