If these days I stay in an expensive hotel, it is because someone else has paid for it. Left to my own devices, I stay in cheap hotels because I prefer them. There was a time, when I could not afford to do so, when I enjoyed staying in luxurious establishments, but now that I […]
The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, research shows that the plantations were anything but capitalist enterprises.
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why.