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.

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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 10, 2026
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Why the Military Fails To Protect Us (And Lies About It)

Originally published September 11, 2007 A September 3 article in Newsweek magazine by Evan Thomas (“Into Thin Air”) highlighted one…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 8, 2026
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Our Founding Financial Dictator?

When I appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show recently to discuss my new book, Hamilton’s Curse, one of the first…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 7, 2026
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The Corrupt Origins of Central Banking in America

Central banking has been a corrupt, mercantilist scheme and an engine of corporate welfare from its very beginning in the…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 6, 2026
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Malice Toward All, Charity Toward None

“Americans are forever proclaiming our boastful aspersions to the world . . . that our government was based on the…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 5, 2026
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The Deified Abe

Are you tired of reading the Bible or one of the other Good Books? Do they not “do anything” for…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 3, 2026
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Death By Government: The Missing Chapter

Over the past decade, a number of researchers have attempted to document the extent to which various governments during the…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 2, 2026
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The Lincoln Cult

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a museum-quality specimen of a “court historian” — an intellectual or pseudo-intellectual who is devoted to…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 1, 2026
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America’s Temple to Political Plunder

“If democracy can be said to have temples, the Lincoln Memorial is our most sacred.” ~ Bill Moyers (tompaine.com, Oct. 6)…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 30, 2026
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The Fatherland Protection Racket

Originally published 9-30-2006. By now, all reasonable people in the world know that the Bush administration (with almost no opposition…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 29, 2026
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My Pilgrimage To THE SHRINE

While spending the past weekend in Springfield, Illinois (where I addressed the Illinois Libertarian Party convention), I took a few…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 28, 2026
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The Men Who Destroyed The Constitution

In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 26, 2026
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A House Undivided Cannot Stand

The title of this article can be thought of as perhaps the hallmark of the thinking of the American founding…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 25, 2026
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America’s Jacobin Ideologues

In his book America the Virtuous and in articles published on LewRockwell.com and elsewhere, Professor Claes Ryn has clearly defined…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 23, 2026
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Government Lies

False advertising in the free market rarely pays. In fact, it can cause a business to incur serious losses or…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 22, 2026
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Left/Right Futility

During the Abbeville Institute’s week-long summer school a few weeks ago, a student asked the Institute’s founder and director, Professor…
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Thomas DiLorenzoSeptember 21, 2026
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A President’s Mission To Destroy The Press

Of all the silly fabrications of American history that have come from the High Priest of the Lincoln Cult, Harry…
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