U.S. History

James Fenimore Cooper, America's first national novelist, saw real danger from the impulse toward majority rule as a panacea for every complaint.

Economists Stephen Cohen and Bradford DeLong are spouting an unfortunate amount of enthusiasm for Alexander Hamilton's corporatist economics.

For decades, governments have been manipulating our views of what medical schools are, and what they should be.

Trump claims to be more skeptical about foreign invasions. That is good. Unfortunately, he also wants to spend a lot more on the military.

Jon Grinspan's new book The Virgin Vote reminds us that democracy has no golden age of civil and well-reasoned electioneering.

Many of the threats to liberty posed by this year's presidential candidates are due to the long history of supporting expanded presidential power.

American Amnesia is a work of propaganda, not of scholarly inquiry. It is simply an un-serious rehashing of old arguments in favor of interventionism. 

Coca-Cola still uses components of the cocaine-producing coca leaf in its production today in a partnership with big pharma and government cronies.

NEW BOOK. For Rothbard, libertarianism was not an intellectual parlor game, it was a banner that was meant to be carried into battle.

A "well-regulated militia," controlled by the states, was once considered essential to providing a counterweight against federal power.