1. Introduction

G.A.

Sean Parr*

This volume brings theory and evidence together to argue that American empire is a departure from principles of liberty and peace and, as such, has not brought about happiness, justice, and security for Americans. Sooner or later, the empire will decline and fall because it contains within it the causes of its own downfall. The essays in this volume focus on the international decisions of the American empire, which attempt to extend the power and influence of the empire outside America

If the New Dealers Win, Frank R. Kent

Laurence Stallings on Bush Brigades and Blackamoors

Youth Faces the Sex Problem, by Constance Cassady

William Henry Chamberlin on Prison Camps of Liberty

Duncan Aicman says the Middle West Rules America

Galsworthy, Ford Maddox Brown

Invitation to Monarcy, by Ralph Adam Cram

Senator Lester Dickson asks, “What’s the Matter With Congress”

Progress Toward Collectivism, by Albert Jay Nock

Portrait of a Lifer

Reno the Naughty, by Anthony Turano

A Yankee Looks at Dixie, by Katherine F. Gerauld

S.K. Padover on the First Liberal

and more

Three Years of Dr. Roosevelt, H.L. Mencken

Harald Lord Varney asks, “Are the Capitalists Asleep?”

Albert Jay Nock on the New Deal and Prohibition

Is Patriotism Necessary? by Struthers Bert

A Man-God of Japan by Sydney Greenbie

An Open Letter to Mr. Jefferson by William M. Houghton

Portland: Athens of the West, by James Stevens; and more

Paradise Imagined, by William H. Chamberlin

The End of Democracy, by Ralph Adams Cram

Canada Won’t Go Yankee, by Stephen Leacock

The Sweetheart of the Regimenters, by Blair Bolles

Labor Speaks to Capital, by Matthew Woll

Turgenor, by Ford Maddox Ford

Confessions of a Poetry Teacher, by Clarence W. Webster

and more

The Triumph of the Have-Not, H.L. Mencken

Harold Lord Varney on Radicals in Our Churches

Cohen and Corcoran: Brain Twins, by Blaire Bolles

Albert Jay Nock on What the Republicans Won’t Do

John W. Thomason, Jr. on the Conquest of Pain

Open Forum, Poetry, and more

The United Affront, by Ernest Boyd

Philip McKee on the High Cost of Dying

Propaganda from the White House, by Gordon Carroll

J.L. Brown on the Crime of Being a Witness

An ex-farmers says “To Hell with Farming”

The State of the Union, by Albert Jay Nock

Open Forum, Americana, and more

Enough for All, by Dorothy Thompson

German Lies About Versailles, by George Creel

An Open Letter to Vice President Wallace, by Eugene Lyons

Mistakes I Saw in the Pacific, by Melvin J. Maas

Open Forum, Checklist, Book reviews, and more