God, Orban, and JD Vance A movement in search of a king

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Thomas’s Confusion of Terms – Phillip W. Magness Justice Thomas’s dissent in the recent tariff case is wrong about Founding era views of trade.

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The Nazi philosopher behind the postliberal right Carl Schmitt wrote the legal justifications for Hitler's seizure of power. His ideas are now in the White House.

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The Postliberal War on Economics: News Article - Independent Institute In 2007, a prominent conservative academic predicted civilization would collapse within months. The culprit: peak oil. The collapse never came but the

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The postliberal war on economics Peak oil panic didn’t just mislead environmentalists, it helped birth a right-wing anti-markets worldview that is helping run the country

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Neo/liberal? The Etymology of a Catch-All Term

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This 1,300-page anticapitalist history gets a few things wrong Sven Beckert's 'Capitalism: A Global History' is...not a reliable history.

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My next coauthored book will provide the most comprehensive survey to date of the question "What is neoliberalism?"

The American New Right looks like the European old right When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?

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The "1619 Project", Six Years On by Phillip W. Magness

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Opinion | Trump’s New Tax Is in the Mail The abolition of the de minimis exemption means you’ll soon be paying more for everything you buy from abroad.

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Opinion | Will the ‘1619 Project’ Spoil America’s Party? As the anniversary of 1776 draws near, get ready for a resurgence of the New York Times’s false history.

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The 1619 Project Has Failed. Why Do Academics Still Take It Seriously? | National Review Academic elites set aside their own expertise to promote its political narrative.

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Playing with Economic Fire The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.

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Quinn Slobodian bastardizes Hayek and Mises Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, by Quinn Slobodian, Zone Books, 272 pages, $29.95 Quinn Slobodian, a historian at

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Phil Magness: The problem with Trumponomics Economic historian Phil Magness on the real history of tariffs and why Trump is so wrong about them.

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Opinion | A Specter Is Haunting America’s New Right Marxism in any form should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

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Don't Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You'll Get Both | David R. Henderson In his inaugural address, President Trump repeated his call for an External Revenue Service. At other times, he has talked about replacing personal income taxes with high tariffs on imports. Besides t...

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No, Marx Was Not an Important Economist An odd battle erupted on social media last week when economist Ben Golub questioned whether students in his field needed to work through “classic” authors such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx to claim exp...

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Blaming Bill Buckley for racism, January 6, and more Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" thesis.

Review of David Austin Walsh's "Taking America Back" (Yale University Press, 2024)

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Did Karl Marx party in 1891? The effect of SPD's Erfurt program on Karl Marx's citations The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) is often proposed as a pre-Soviet popularizer of Marxist economic theories due to its electoral successes in Germany in the decades before World War ...

Synthetic Karl Marx is back for round 2.

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