Preliminary notes on the state and 19th century capitalism

A brief and sloppy look at some of the ways in which the state intervened in economies in the supposedly laissez-faire 19th century. [...]

Review of Karl Marx: Man and Fighter by Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen

Man and Fighter is the subtitle of Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen’s biography of Karl Marx. It is also readers’ first clue that the work is something unique, something that transcends the triviality of biography. [...]

Colonial America: A Foreign Land?

America today has a reputation for avarice, individualism, and a crude religiosity. These are not characteristics found in colonial America in great abundance. [...]