U.S. History

From the session on “’America’s Great Depression’ 50th Anniversary,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conferenc

Calvin Coolidge, on spending and taxation, was quite Rothbardian well before Rothbard. According to Amity Shlaes, “Coolidge didn’t favor tax cuts as a means to increase revenue or to buy off Democrats. He favored them because they took government, the people’s servant, out of the way of the people.”

Robert Higgs advises us

Lincoln's inversion of the original American conception of self-government must itself be inverted.

The first Transcontinental’s were all creatures, not of capitalism or the private markets, but of government.

There are already claims from the left that the powers surrendered to the EU cannot be recalled.

Here was a vast empire of republics seeking to settle its differences not by war, but by peaceful secession.

Since 1865, Americans have been taught the triumphant Unionist theory of their own constitutional order. That theory is not only false, but spectacularly so.

“Participatory fascism” is a system that is of plutocratic elites, for plutocratic elites, and by plutocratic elites.

The right of secession follows at once from the basic rights defended by classical liberalism, beginning with the principle of self-ownership.