U.S. History
Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty, Volume V: The New Republic, 1784–1791
Patrick Newman speaks at the 2019 Supporters Summit in Los Angeles, California.
Mercantilism, Merchants, and “Class Conflict”
The economic policy dominant in the Europe of the 17th and 18th centuries assumed that intervention in economic affairs was a proper function of government.
Mark Thornton on How Government Propped Up Slavery in the American South
Bob Murphy and Mark Thornton discuss the various ways in which government intervention masked slavery's inefficiency in the American South.
The Influence and Origins of FDR
Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today: a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus.
What We Can Learn from Indian Tribes on Immigration
If we grant that Indian tribes ought to be able to restrict membership (i.e., naturalization) for their own groups, on what principle can this be denied to other groups?
Have Free-Market Economists Conquered the World?
Both left and right now repeatedly push a myth: the myth that governments have been taken over by laissez-faire hard-core free-market economists who have turned the world into a landscape of untrammeled capitalism.
Shays’s Rebellion: The Excuse for a Centralized American State
The so-called Founding Fathers used small-scale tax rebellions to justify their counter-revolution against the spirit of 1776, thus launching the big-tax, big-government Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Homicides in the US Fall for Second Year as Murder Rate Drops in 38 States
In spite of the fact we are told the US is in the grip of a gun violence crisis, new FBI data shows murder rates dropped for the second year in 2018, falling back near 50-year lows.
Eugenics and the Racist Underbelly of the American Left
Jim Crow policies and the eugenics-tinged racial purity theories behind them were at the heart of progressivism, something that few progressives today are willing to acknowledge.