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Smearing Capitalism

You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America. A Los Angeles Times columnist says, "There's a mass loneliness crisis going on." "Capitalism is Making You Lonely," says Jacobin…

Dumb Things Socialists Promise

Socialism is popular! A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery — first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now…

A Brief History of the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal was opened in 1914. It was an enormous undertaking. The canal took ten years to complete (from the time Teddy Roosevelt got our country’s work on the canal started), and $400 million (about $15 billion in…