People of goodwill and character can shape the future for the better. It’s never too soon or too late to start.

Jewish Montanans thrived in mining, merchandising, railroads, hotels, livestock, medicine, meat packing, jewelry and candy making, and even local politics.

Whether you support U.S. aid to Ukraine or not, do not delude yourself into thinking that Moscow will stop if it takes Kyiv.

Maybe someday there will be a country called “The Department of Motor Vehicles.”

He zigged and zagged from one Rube Goldberg policy contraption to the next. His elitist brain trusters covered for his failures and cooked up new schemes, in what Flynn called “the dance of the crackpots.”

Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Jackson would be horrified at today’s Federal Reserve, which has victimized the country with almost non-stop monetary mischief since its birth in 1913.

The 1924 presidential election was a colorful one, featuring a record 103 nomination ballots and the Democratic convention and the Republican victory of the Coolidge-Dawes ticket in November.

Neither the Congress nor the President of today possesses the courage of a Franklin Pierce on the matter of spending, even as the national debt is on track to hit $50 trillion before this decade is out.

The dollar is no longer “as good as gold” because government mismanages money just as it mismanages almost everything else.

Any nation founded on a promise of freedom must be reminded constantly of what freedom is all about, as well as how rare and precious it is. Here are some of my favorite quotes on the subject.

Unless you have reason to believe the culprits in Washington are going to fix this on their own, consider the Article V option seriously.

The so-called “reforms” were far-reaching, to be sure, but they were also quintessentially authoritarian.

Did you know there were 32,000 “speakeasies” in New York City at the height of Prohibition? More on Prohibition here too: https://fee.org/articles/the-volstead-act-a-centennial-to-note-not-toast/.

The word “snowflake” has taken on a new meaning in recent years.

What’s the connection between the two? A lecture for the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri — March 14, 2024.

Reducing complex human actions and interactions to numerical expression gives off airs of precision and deep sophistication. In fact, however, such efforts are usually nothing more than oversimplification magnified by hutzpah.

During the 18th Century, Scots and Creeks were the principal players in a thriving transatlantic trade in which deerskins and furs from Georgia were exchanged for various European goods.

Did you know that at least two of the more famous samurai were not ethnically Japanese at all?

In 1867, Japan was a closed country with both feet firmly planted in the past. A half-century later, it was a major world power. This remarkable transition begins with the Meiji Restoration.