The lesson of antiquity is that technological ingenuity was never absent. What was absent were economic structures...
Economics
He is asking whether our legal and governance structures are agile enough to distribute the bounty of...
Medieval record-keeping technology encompassed more than quills and parchment. It represented a cultural shift toward inscription as...
A shakeout could leave fewer but stronger players, potentially accelerating the pace of meaningful innovation once the...
Are we building a room for the world to gather, or a mirror in which only we...
The real question is whether DOGE will be reformed from within, dismantled altogether, or quietly absorbed into...
Funds meant to support the integrity of America’s nuclear infrastructure have instead gone toward polishing an asset...
The history of tax evasion in the ancient world offers not only a window into economic life,...
Republican lawmakers are set to push the Trump administration to unilaterally “drastically reduce what investors pay on...
To write the history of the middle class is to write the history of modernity, not from...
The middle class is bearing more of the cost and receiving less of the reward. And the...
The history of tax avoidance is a history of inequality made durable not by failure, but by...
In the end, the One Big Beautiful Bill may be remembered not for its size or its...
By tracing how past rulers manipulated meaning, we gain sharper tools to recognize when the same sleights...
The language that cloaks privilege is often older than we realize, echoing through cathedrals and corporate boardrooms...
When governments restrain investment in public goods out of fear, inequality deepens. Trust erodes. Social mobility stalls....
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate When Power Needs a Makeover Authoritarian regimes have long relied on force,...
An example of how wealth and power in the ancient world were often built on the suffering...
Introduction In 2025, former President Donald Trump introduced what he referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill,”...
Wealth and power were built on the exploitation of the lower classes. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
All Americans who are not rich should be angry—very angry. By Christopher D. CookSenior WriterSchwartz Center for Economic...
Gould accumulated vast wealth and power through a series of exploitative practices. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
The Trump administration will have vastly more power and resources. By Colin SeebergerSenior Adviser, CommunicationsThe Center for...
These coin clipping rings operated in the shadows of cities and towns. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
There’s been an explosion in international online fraud in recent years. By Cezary PodkulReporterProPublica Brian Maloney Jr....
More than just a con artist, the confidence man was a mirror held up to our society....
The rise of foreign scamming is a dark consequence of the borderless digital world. By Matthew A....
Housing assistance in ancient Rome was not systematic, universal, or ideologically grounded in rights. By Matthew A....
The solution is to make existing subsidies much more widely available. By Dr. Alex SchwartzProfessor of Urban...
Early Americans formed a patchwork system that kept many from destitution. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction:...