It was under Coolidge that the Mellon Plan achieved its fullest implementation, and the country was all the better for it.
Read MoreThe Emperor Who Tried to Restore Sound Money →
Most political leaders are happy to cowardly defer real reform to some future generation and, in the meantime, do nothing more than “manage” the decline. Pertinax was different.
Read MoreWhat’s a sapelo? →
Before this book, I thought “tabby” was one of the more common names for a house cat. Now I know it’s a kind of concrete made with oyster shells.
Read MoreSatchmo Comes to Great Falls →
People said he had a voice like gravel, and they meant it as a high compliment.
Read MoreAustralia and Its Gold Standard →
Governments don’t like gold because they can’t print it is a truism worth canonizing in the Book of Proverbs. The experiences of Australia, the UK and the US.
Read MoreThey Actually Banned Sliced Bread →
Why have a “commerce clause” in the first place if the federal government can declare that you’re doing commerce—interstate or otherwise—even if you’re not?
Read MoreMayor Cleveland Nixes Public Funding for the 4th of July →
Personally, Grover loved pork in his sausage, but he hated it in bills.
Read MoreOne of History's Greatest Stories Ever! →
Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, to their eternal credit, proved that even the most entrenched of laws and policies can be changed by people of courage, character and conscience.
Read MoreThe Origins of "No Taxation Without Representation" →
When the English Civil War began in 1642, John Hampden was among the first the King unsuccessfully attempted to arrest.
Read MoreMontana's Home School Heroes →
The state’s roughly 7,400 home school children (as reported by the Associated Press) are saving Montana taxpayers well over ten million bucks this year. Nationwide, homeschoolers save the public upwards of $56 billion.
Read MoreWanted: Moral Courage →
When we see acts of moral courage, we should recognize and applaud those who show it. We should feel emboldened to practice more of it ourselves.
Read MoreLincoln Steffens the Useful Idiot →
He was “hornswoggled by the biggest lie of all,” namely, that Lenin’s Bolshevism would somehow morph into a socialist utopia.
Read MoreReviving the Can-Do Spirit →
What we traditionally refer to as a “can-do” spirit, so vital to the country’s past success, must be front-and-center again. Nations that suppress the can-do spirit are plagued with endless, intractable problems from poverty to poor health to lousy government.
Read MoreAndrew Mellon and the Good and Bad Guys of the Great Depression →
A speech delivered at the Rivers Club in downtown Pittsburgh, PA for Grove City College’s Institute for Faith & Freedom on June 6, 2023.
Read MoreHe Who Pays the Piper →
DeSantis to universities: If you’re so self-focused and sanctimonious to declare an inviolable right to other people’s money, you need to go back to school and learn about the piper.
Read MoreThe Centennial of the Birth of a Great Critic of Socialism →
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich, born on June 3, 1923, showed that socialism is fundamentally anti-individualistic. Socialism is cannibalism animated by philosophy.
Read MoreChurchill's Gold Standard Blunder →
No doubt Winston Churchill’s economic intentions were good. But good intentions by themselves are never good enough. They desperately require good economics.
Read MoreIn Defense of Justice Thomas →
The political party whose roots are sunk deeply into racism and groupthink still treats blacks the way it always has: Keep them down, buy them off, tell them they’re victims and you’re their saviors, don’t let them choose anything but the government schools their zip codes bind them to no matter how bad those schools are, etc., etc.
Read MoreThe Slave Who Went to Montana →
He was the first African American to cross the continent, the first African American to see the Pacific Ocean, and the first African American to set foot in Montana.
Read MoreWhat Does a Sensible "Political Spectrum" Look Like? →
Instead of deploying flawed and simplistic spectrum charts, let us judge political and economic systems by who they empower—the State or the individual.
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