Learning the Lessons from the Fall of Rome →

October 1, 2025

What can we learn from the experience of the Roman Republic? Delivered at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, on September 30, 2025.

Recent “Best of Web”

Featured

Sep 25, 2025

Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life

Sep 25, 2025

Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

Sep 25, 2025

Sep 18, 2025

The Downfall of the Roman Empire and the Future of American Democracy

Sep 18, 2025

Dr. George Maher asks, “For all the noise and the heat of today’s debates the important questions are: Do those who are running our system know what they are doing, and do they care?”

Sep 18, 2025

Aug 26, 2025

Trump To Dumb Down Chinese By Inviting Them To Attend U.S. Universities

Aug 26, 2025

They’ll probably learn more Marxism here than in Beijing.

Aug 26, 2025

Recent Quotes

Featured

Feb 11, 2025

Murphy on America

Feb 11, 2025

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me” — Actor, poet, and the most decorated American of World War II, Audie Murphy.

Feb 11, 2025

Feb 1, 2025

Mill on Freedom

Feb 1, 2025

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

Feb 1, 2025

Mar 20, 2023

Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders

Mar 20, 2023

“There’s nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s good for it — from his book, Musashi.

Mar 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

Featured

Oct 1, 2025

Learning the Lessons from the Fall of Rome

Oct 1, 2025

What can we learn from the experience of the Roman Republic? Delivered at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, on September 30, 2025.

Oct 1, 2025

Sep 28, 2025

As Good As Any Man

Sep 28, 2025

She had overcome huge challenges and proved that a woman could be just as good in business as any man—and far better than those who defrauded her with their depreciating paper money.

Sep 28, 2025

Sep 27, 2025

Hated by the Envious for Her Financial Genius

Sep 27, 2025

The City of New York on numerous occasions asked her for loans to keep the city from going broke.

Sep 27, 2025