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.

Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 22, 2025
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Constitutional Dictatorship?

When President Trump recently began calling the Ukrainian dictator a dictator elements of both Left and Right in the Washington…
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Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 19, 2025
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Trump’s Revival of Lincoln’s “Colonization” Plan

Now that the US and Israeli military have bombed almost all of Gaza into a smoldering ruin and killed tens…
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Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 15, 2025
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Happy Worst President’s Day

A 64-year-old woman with deep family roots in Alabama recently said to me that she was taught in Alabama public…
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Thomas DiLorenzoFebruary 10, 2025
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“Foreign Aid” Enriches the Rich While Impoverishing the Impoverished

If there is anything we have learned from the American welfare state it is that from the very beginning it…
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Thomas DiLorenzoJanuary 13, 2025
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California (Bad) Dreamin’

Amid the horrific fires in Los Angeles that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused numerous deaths and injuries we…
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Thomas DiLorenzoJanuary 7, 2025
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How the McKinley Tariff Almost Destroyed the Republican Party

President Trump’s first major speech on economic policy in 2017 was delivered in Lexington, Kentucky near the home of Henry…
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Thomas DiLorenzoDecember 13, 2024
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Stakeholder Capitalism & The Corporate KPI Cult

In private business “[t]here is no need to limit the discretion of subordinates by any rules or regulations other than…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 29, 2024
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Deconstructing Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Various states held Thanksgiving holidays decades before Lincoln nationalized the holiday with his October 3, 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. The Proclamation…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 26, 2024
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Our History of Protectionist Tariff Train Wrecks

Protectionist tariffs are associated with a long history of economic and social calamities in America. An important reason for this…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 16, 2024
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All States are Empires of Lies (Video)

This article is a version of a speech delivered at the 2024 Mises Institute Supporters Summit. “Most economists are political…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 15, 2024
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Elections: Do They Really Matter?

The answer to the question posed in the title is: Yes and No. Yes, some elections have made a significant difference but in…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 5, 2024
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The “Fascist” Ad Hominem As an Act of Projection

A definition of “projection” is when one baselessly accuses others of doing something unsavory, immoral, or illegal that he is…
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Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 3, 2024
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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream”…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 24, 2024
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What is Bolstering the Chinese Economy? (Video)

On October 23, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared NOW with Stacy Washington, to explain how the Chinese Communist Party is imitating what the…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 22, 2024
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The Trojan Horse of “Public Health”

At the recent Mises Institute Supporters Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina Tom Woods made some flattering comments about Yours…
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Thomas DiLorenzoOctober 19, 2024
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All States Are Empires of Economic Lies

Presented in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Saturday, October 12, 2024. Article posted with permission from Thomas DiLorenzo
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