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October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My next coauthored book will provide the most comprehensive survey to date of the question "What is neoliberalism?"
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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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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September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The "1619 Project", Six Years On
by Phillip W. Magness
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August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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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August 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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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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July 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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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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July 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Playing with Economic Fire
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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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April 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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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March 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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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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February 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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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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January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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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January 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Review of David Austin Walsh's "Taking America Back" (Yale University Press, 2024)

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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.
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November 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Synthetic Karl Marx is back for round 2.

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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 ...
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November 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM