Politics

For this week‘s version of Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Mary Grabar‘s Debunking FDR, which examines Roosevelt‘s paternalistic worldview and how it shaped his political life and his presidency. 

President Trump has made a lot of noise in the business community in the first few months of his administration. Unfortunately, his actions and rhetoric have created a lot of uncertainty in the economy, threatening capital development.

The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.

The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.

Brion McClanahan dismantles the so-called "righteous cause" narrative that shapes modern American history and foreign policy, tracing its roots from Sumner and Lincoln to the war in Iraq.

Wanjiru Njoya exposes how federal intervention fueled racial conflict and dismantled the South's social order—challenging modern myths with historical truth.

President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy.

Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.

Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that race and class determine outcomes. However, the real world is not so abstract and things often are not what Marxists believe to be true.

Joseph Salerno reveals how JFK's economists used war spending and deficits to erode liberty under the guise of stability and growth.