Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the justices simply interpret the Constitution according to modern statist progressive viewpoints that fit their own progressive narratives.
What answer explains the heinous attack in New Orleans while making the fewest logical leaps? Perhaps it is another instance of the unintended costs of the global War on Terror.
The Cultural Revolution continues apace in this country and it is aimed at all of the old Confederate symbols from statues to the Confederate Battle Flag. With leftist progressives there can be no discussion. Any symbol from the South equates to racism and nothing else.
How should we approach the study of history? An unfortunate trend has been to implement “history by theory” in which practitioners take theories and present them as facts. An honest approach is to take the historical facts and interpret them through coherent theories.
Not only was Joe Biden a failed president domestically, but he also was a failure in his foreign policy. From sending troops to Haiti, to the Ukraine war, to conflict in the Middle East, Biden never missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse.
Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A closer look gives us a different picture of “Honest Abe.” David Gordon reviews a book that very much questions the Lincoln mythology.
Donald Trump’s proposals to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and/or Canada represent another ridiculous betrayal of the “America First” ideology he ran on.
In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard conceptualizes “the defense of the rights of person and property” as the foundation of libertarian law.
Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that the northern states opposed slavery while only the South supported it. Like all narratives, it leaves out important information.
