Thomas DiLorenzo

Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the author of many books, including The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America. A professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Barron's, and many other publications. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Commentary

Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 7, 2025
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Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites

Economists have been studying and writing about government bureaucracy for quite a long time. Ludwig von Mises became the first…
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Commentary

Thomas DiLorenzoAugust 28, 2025
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Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

The thesis of Patrick Newman’s Cronyism (2021) is that American political history from 1607 to 1849 was essentially a tug of war…
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Thomas DiLorenzoAugust 9, 2025
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The New Anti-Communists: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War

The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War organization has joined with the Daughters of the Confederacy to advocate…
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Thomas DiLorenzoJuly 25, 2025
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An Open Letter To Treasury Secretary Bessent

Dear Secretary Bessent, I read with great interest your July 21 comment at the Federal Reserve Capital Conference that: “What…
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Commentary

Thomas DiLorenzoJuly 14, 2025
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Trump’s Election Interference Tariff

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt…
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Thomas DiLorenzoJuly 5, 2025
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America’s Forgotten Independence Movement

There were three independence movements in America prior to the War to Prevent Southern Independence (1861-1865). The American Revolution was…
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Commentary

Thomas DiLorenzoJune 6, 2025
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To Make America Free Again

Everyone likes to be flattered by being called “great,” especially Donald Trump. Equally as flattering is to have one’s entire…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMay 30, 2025
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The American-Israeli Nineteenth-Century Ways of War

In his book Nation, State and Economy, published in 1919, Ludwig von Mises wrote of how nineteenth-century imperialist powers often preceded…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMay 28, 2025
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The American Pravda Sues The Trump Administration

In a recent executive order, President Trump called for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR and “public” television (PBS),…
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Thomas DiLorenzoApril 16, 2025
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The Tariff Tax Statistic the Trump Fanboys Don’t Want You to Know About

FOX commentator Charles Payne recently repeated Pat Buchanan’s old post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy (After this, therefore because of this) about…
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Thomas DiLorenzoApril 4, 2025
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The Federal Reserve Protection Racket

The banking elites who had long wanted to control money and credit succeeded when they created the Fed in 1913.…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 25, 2025
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Judicial Tyranny: Tip of the Deep State Sword

Hundreds of Democrat party political hacks who happen to have attended law school for a couple of years have been…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 19, 2025
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Gangsters, Terrorists, & Deep State Judicial Tyranny

The primary purpose of the federal judiciary is to make sure that anything the federal government does is almost never,…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 16, 2025
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Trump’s False Tariff “Fairness” Argument

President Trump’s argument for starting an international trade war is based on a socialistic-sounding plea for “fairness” and equality. Some…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 8, 2025
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Universities: Dysfunctional Incubators of Socialism

Ludwig von Mises called the universities of his day “nurseries of socialism” because of the inevitable socialist bias of all government-funded universities.…
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Thomas DiLorenzoMarch 1, 2025
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How FDR’s Attack on the Gold Standard Spawned an Age of Inflation

In his great classic, Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs explained how Franklin Roosevelt’s attacks on the gold standard ushered in “the…
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