In reality, federal regulations are often pushed by the very industries being "regulated"-- a pattern demonstrated time and again by economic historians dating back to New Left scholar Gabriel Kolko. Concerning telecommunications, this has been true...

This is just fine in my book. The sooner we get back to francs, lire, punts, drachmas and the rest of the old sovereign currencies, the better in the long run. It used to be as much a part of going to France as choking on Gauloise smoke to change money...

The fundamental economic vision of progressivism was to not to combat special interests, but to embrace and empower them. In a very real sense, “progressivism” means rule by special interests. The world looks just the same And history ain’t changed As...

Historian Gabriel Kolko says history has a very important lesson for Europe and the world. Prepare yourself for another crisis of great depression proportions. There are extremely important differences between this decade and the period after the First...

As my good friend and eminent historian Gabriel Kolko shows in this brilliant essay, the post-war solutions of NATO and the European Union, together with the exigencies of the Cold War, put these questions on hold. But their fundamentals remained,...