Modern social engineers view history through a lens of technocratic determinism. They believe society follows a straight, predictable path toward centralized management. Yet this desire to plan human life is an illusion. What elites call “historical inevitability” is merely a bureaucratic narrative meant to paralyze action and shield power from its own failures.

John C. Calhoun is best known as a leading American political figure in the first half of the nineteenth century who was the foremost defender of states rights and the interests of the South against the centralizers who sought to alter the Constitution from its original meaning.