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

... surrender are, frankly, bizarre." As it turns out, Ornstein's column was a response to an earlier statement by Gingrich to the effect that Obama is "the most radical president in American history." What ...

2. How to Stop Inflation
(News/Blog)

... that idea kicking around in the mainstream, but there actually was such a time in American history. To find it all you have to do is locate a stack of magazines from the 1950s. It can even be a mainstream ...

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

... is a very serious economic problem for all our people. Even a "little" inflation is bad Some have suggested that a slight rise in prices each year is not harmful. Economic history reveals that there ...

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

... than a name in history books. But, it wasn’t so long ago, as recently as the 1980s, in fact, that most Americans feared that eventually some drunk commissar would slip after a night of too much vodka and ...

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

... "human beings begin to take speculative excesses with the consequences that have dotted the history of the globe basically since the beginning of the 18th and 19th century…. It's human nature: unless somebody ...

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

... from Merry old England. His persistent ignorance apparently includes a basic lack of knowledge of American history, i.e., particularly the part where our great forefathers threw his countrymen out of America ...

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

... growth. I have studied the monetary history of the United States and written a book on the subject, and it's my opinion that there have been more severe crises in the years since we've had a Federal Reserve ...

8. Future Tech
(Archive/Features)

... is nearly unequaled in human history. More people have more food, more shelter, more access to medical care, more access to transportation, to education, and to technology than ever before. Of course, ...

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

... of the ancient past and our understanding of current events. With regard to the ancient history, it gets a significant element completely wrong. In one of the trailers for the film, and again in the film ...

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

... and studying ancient Latin literature. After him came other scholars who, heavily influenced by his example, carried on his work. Through them and their works, the political history of Rome began to inform ...

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

Oxford historian Peter Heather has reexamined the fall of Rome. His 2006 book, The Fall of the Roman Empire, holds many lessons for today. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A NEW HISTORY ...

12. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

... of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)," he wrote in the Canada Free Press on February 5. "This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while ...

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)

... Economic History, the Soviets planned to “draw water from the river Ob and its tributary Irtysh and send it southward. The transfer route would have stretched from the confluence of the Ob and Irtysh rivers ...

15. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

... structure of Western civilization. Though secularists may dream of a day when religion is banished to the history books as a curious relic from a bygone era, it is a dream that cannot come to pass without ...

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)

... the most popular president in history — with a soaring approval rating of 66 percent. According to the Boston Globe, that figure is the highest ever recorded for an exiting -president. Still, Mr. Popularity ...

18. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

... of recession and into the longest period of prosperity in American history. I say to you tonight: millions of Americans will live better lives for a long time to come because of the job that’s been done ...