World History

Scotland's celebrated free banks were neither free nor superior.

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

No matter how legitimate the reasons might seem for going to war, the results are always horrific, and wars rarely, if ever, accomplish their stated purposes.

The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite. Ryan McMaken on why liberalism keeps getting blamed for a Terror it didn't cause.

The Policy and History faculty panel takes student questions on the state of the movement and the prospects for freedom.

A book so dangerous it couldn't be printed: it passed hand to hand in manuscript for twenty-five years. Mark Thornton on the underground text that founded modern economics.

Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe.

Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe.

Richard M. Ebeling recalls the world of 1952, when socialism seemed ascendant everywhere, summarizes Marx’s system of historical materialism and class struggle, and introduces Mises as one of its most formidable critics.

Most readers are familiar with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are less familiar with the 1957 Civil Rights Act.