Like almost everybody today, I use a digital camera and haven’t bought a roll of film in decades. But my first camera, back in 1960, was a Kodak Box Brownie.

He thought federal welfare programs would undermine independence and entrepreneurship—and on that, the historical verdict is sad but resoundingly clear: He was right.

Excessive damage claims are not only mostly arbitrary, but they burden everybody with higher insurance premiums and hit small businesses especially hard.

Please don’t blame me for the dollar’s century-long decline in purchasing power. I would have voted Locofoco in 1836 and Gold Democrat in 1896.

Historian K. Ross Toole: “Before the emigrant’s wagon ever rolled a mile, before the miner found his first color, before the government authorized a single road or trail, this inhospitable land had been traversed and mapped” by folks in the fur business.

On this Inauguration Day, it’s worth noting that the man who delivered the longest inaugural address in American history also presided over the shortest presidency. If there’s any lesson there, it might be this: keep it short and sweet.

If DOGE can accomplish what Dodge accomplished, we too may experience a new American economic miracle. The difference a Detroit banker made in three countries—Germany, Japan and the U.S.