Ancient Rome

The Origins of Valentine’s Day and Some Reflections on the Holiday

Why Rome’s Best Emperor Shunned Government Schools

Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’

The Monetary Mistakes Behind the Downfall of Cleopatra and the Last Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

The Roman Emperor Who Tried to Bring Monetary ‘Reform’ to the Empire—and Failed Miserably

The Emperor Who Tried to Bring Sound Economics Back to Rome—and Paid With His Life

A 5th Century Roman’s Guide to Happiness in a World Full of Pain, Loss, and Injustice

Price Controls Have Failed for 4,000 Years—and Humans Still Haven’t Learned

The World’s Oldest Republic Reveals the Secret to Peace and Prosperity

How the Roman Empire Provided the Founding Fathers a Blueprint for America’s Economy

The Scariest Inflation Chart You’ve Ever Seen

What Gibbon Got Wrong in ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’

Didius Julianus: The Roman Emperor Who Bought the Imperial Throne—and Paid With His Life

Lessons from Livy on How Great Civilizations Rise and Fall

Why Edith Hamilton Feared the Decline of Individualism More Than Atomic Bombs

The US Government’s Debt-to-GDP Ratio Is Worse Than Greece’s Before the 2008 Crash (And It’s About to Get Worse)

How a Lowly Monk Ended Rome’s Bloody Gladiator Duels

Antoninus Pius: The Greatest Roman Emperor You’ve Never Heard of

Video: Lawrence Reed on Modern Parallels to the Fall of Rome

The Roman Republic of 1849: Lessons from a Five-Month Country