History
The Unexpected Afterlife of Private Wealth
Private fortunes outlive their owners. The gardens, architecture, ideas, and institutions they finance often become part of the public inheritance.
Tesla and Edison: The Feud That Wasn’t
Sorry, techbros: your Manichean fantasy just ain’t so.
Please, Show Us the Manuscript
Matariki, an unpublished manuscript and the abandonment of “peer review”.
The Myth of Government Science
Time and again, private enterprise and competition deliver results while government scientists simply collect grants.
If Socialism Was Going to Work, This Would Have Been It
A wealthy backer, a boatload of intellectuals and a clean slate – it still failed.
How China Just Overtook the US, Again
The difference in priorities between China and the West could not be more obvious.
Will the House of Windsor Become the House of Islam?
Even non-Christians are screaming on social media that King Charles III has destroyed 1400 years of Christian values that helped make Britain great and produced an Empire on which the sun never set.
The Jewish Legacy in Pennsylvania
It would take much of the world another six years to begin really asking that question. In the Jewish communities of Pennsylvania's Coal Region, they had been asking it from the start.
Subjects and Citizens: A Treatise by Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissenting opinion completely reframed citizenship as a two-way agreement between the person and the political community. It is not conferred by birth alone but also requires domicile, which means allegiance and the forsaking of other political loyalties.
The Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.
What Losing the Local Paper Means
The loss of local media has bigger impacts than most people realize.
