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Their policies allegedly bolstered European immigration at the expense of all others but how would they work with today’s population mix?

One of the scholars at the recent Philadelphia Society conclave of conservative intellectuals found an unexpected downside to tax cuts. “Congress voted against Grover Cleveland’s tariff cuts arguing that government will become bigger because of all the money coming into the Treasury,” Brian Domitrovic of Sam Houston State University said at the Society’s meeting in […]

Clearly we have to reach beyond academia if we want to reclaim our history. “Calvin Coolidge had four percent growth which candidates today only talk about as a goal,” Amity Shlaes, the former Wall Street Journal reporter turned Coolidge biographer, said of the much-maligned former president. Shlaes, who has also written critically of FDR, was […]

Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent historian Steve Hayward reminds us, is preside. Thus, we looked at the economies and foreign policies that these leaders presided […]

Half a century ago, veteran actor Robert Preston revived his career playing con man Harold Hill trying to sell River City on his think system for playing the Minuet in G. A think tank at Bard College seems to be applying that approach to Twentieth Century economics.

Here’s a couple of history lessons you are not likely to get in school.