Writer Howard Melvin Fast was born on November 11, 1914, in New York City to a Jewish family; his father, Barney Fastowski, came from the Russian Empire, from the town of Fastov, near Kiev, and his ...

A new biography charts the life and death of the socialist firebrand John Maclean. Our Writer at Large talks to author Donald Robertson about a ...

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When I recently started reading investigative journalist Peter Schweizer’s “The Invisible Coup,” I had not realized it had ...

PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...

Brutalist homes came up everywhere after World War II as a way to provide people with affordable housing, but there's a reason why the design trend didn't last.

Fleeing Iran as a child, Rita Panahi knew just two words of English. Today, she's a controversial opinion columnist and ...

Before it gave rise to the Harlem Renaissance and long before it became the epicenter of the Jazz Age, Harlem was a Black Metropolis.

A personal remembrance of David Whittaker who led an interesting life as a street historian, poet, and someone who lent a ...

Discover the key distinctions between capitalist and socialist economies, focusing on market reliance versus government ...

He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?

Most young libertarian writers and activists who arose from the 1950s through the '70s credit Rothbard as a key influence, ...