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Montana--Cool for Coolidge! →

August 22, 2023

Did Montanans make the right choice by giving Coolidge their votes in 1924? You bet they did.

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Remembering a Great Polish Patriot: Jan Nowak-Jezioranski →

August 15, 2023

Looking to models of courage such as Jan Nowak-Jezioranski for inspiration will help us grow in courage ourselves. We may need it when we least expect it.

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The Lesson of Aurelian: Beware of False Reformers →

August 8, 2023

Like most dictators, Aurelian thought he was special. Inscribed on some of the coins he minted, and which bore his image, was the phrase, deus et dominus natus, meaning “god and born ruler.”

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The Best Treasury Secretary America Ever Had →

August 3, 2023

It was under Coolidge that the Mellon Plan achieved its fullest implementation, and the country was all the better for it.

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The Emperor Who Tried to Restore Sound Money →

August 1, 2023

Most political leaders are happy to cowardly defer real reform to some future generation and, in the meantime, do nothing more than “manage” the decline. Pertinax was different.

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What’s a sapelo? →

July 26, 2023

Before this book, I thought “tabby” was one of the more common names for a house cat. Now I know it’s a kind of concrete made with oyster shells.

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Satchmo Comes to Great Falls →

July 18, 2023

People said he had a voice like gravel, and they meant it as a high compliment. 

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Australia and Its Gold Standard →

July 11, 2023

Governments don’t like gold because they can’t print it is a truism worth canonizing in the Book of Proverbs. The experiences of Australia, the UK and the US.

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They Actually Banned Sliced Bread →

July 6, 2023

Why have a “commerce clause” in the first place if the federal government can declare that you’re doing commerce—interstate or otherwise—even if you’re not?

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Mayor Cleveland Nixes Public Funding for the 4th of July →

June 29, 2023

Personally, Grover loved pork in his sausage, but he hated it in bills.

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One of History's Greatest Stories Ever! →

June 27, 2023

Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, to their eternal credit, proved that even the most entrenched of laws and policies can be changed by people of courage, character and conscience.

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The Origins of "No Taxation Without Representation" →

June 25, 2023

When the English Civil War began in 1642, John Hampden was among the first the King unsuccessfully attempted to arrest.

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Montana's Home School Heroes →

June 20, 2023

The state’s roughly 7,400 home school children (as reported by the Associated Press) are saving Montana taxpayers well over ten million bucks this year. Nationwide, homeschoolers save the public upwards of $56 billion.

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Wanted: Moral Courage →

June 20, 2023

When we see acts of moral courage, we should recognize and applaud those who show it. We should feel emboldened to practice more of it ourselves.

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Lincoln Steffens the Useful Idiot →

June 15, 2023

He was “hornswoggled by the biggest lie of all,” namely, that Lenin’s Bolshevism would somehow morph into a socialist utopia.

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Reviving the Can-Do Spirit →

June 13, 2023

What we traditionally refer to as a “can-do” spirit, so vital to the country’s past success, must be front-and-center again. Nations that suppress the can-do spirit are plagued with endless, intractable problems from poverty to poor health to lousy government.

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Andrew Mellon and the Good and Bad Guys of the Great Depression →

June 8, 2023

A speech delivered at the Rivers Club in downtown Pittsburgh, PA for Grove City College’s Institute for Faith & Freedom on June 6, 2023.

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He Who Pays the Piper →

June 6, 2023

DeSantis to universities: If you’re so self-focused and sanctimonious to declare an inviolable right to other people’s money, you need to go back to school and learn about the piper.

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The Centennial of the Birth of a Great Critic of Socialism →

June 3, 2023

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich, born on June 3, 1923, showed that socialism is fundamentally anti-individualistic. Socialism is cannibalism animated by philosophy.

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Churchill's Gold Standard Blunder →

June 1, 2023

No doubt Winston Churchill’s economic intentions were good. But good intentions by themselves are never good enough. They desperately require good economics.

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
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“For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they bankroll in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble,” writes Ryan Walters.

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Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
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Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
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“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

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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.”

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Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
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Murphy on America
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“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.

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Mill on Freedom
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.”

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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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“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

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Grateful Thanks to the Founding Generation
Dec 3, 2025
Grateful Thanks to the Founding Generation
Dec 3, 2025

I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.

Dec 3, 2025
Socialists Blame Capitalism for Everything, Especially When a Disaster is the Fault of Socialism
Dec 3, 2025
Socialists Blame Capitalism for Everything, Especially When a Disaster is the Fault of Socialism
Dec 3, 2025

The idea that politicians are supposed to provide solutions to problems is usually stupid, because politicians are not magicians. They can't do things any better than people who actually create wealth. They don't create wealth, they just redistribute it. We shouldn't think of the state as a very generous uncle who only thinks about us. A very good English translation of an interview with Kristina Votrubova in the publication Postroj. Conducted November 27, 2025.

Dec 3, 2025
Dumb Ideas that Threaten Freedom and Prosperity
Dec 2, 2025
Dumb Ideas that Threaten Freedom and Prosperity
Dec 2, 2025

Don’t ignore the long-run. Government is not Superman. The balance of trade is nonsense. Jesus was no socialist. And more! This is a video recording of my speech for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik in Bratislava, Slovakia, on November 27, 2025.

Dec 2, 2025