U.S. History

Mises Daily Tuesday by Allen Mendenhall.

Designed to redress the wrongs of the major injustice of slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment is now used by the federal courts to micromanage nearly every aspect of modern life. Strangely, many libertarians continue to support the amendment in spite of this.

The Hartford Convention is known now, as much as it is remembered, as an ideological precursor to Southern secession in 1860 and 1861.

Mises Daily Monday by Matt Battaglioli.

In chapter 80 of Conceived in Liberty, his history of the American Revolution, Rothbard addresses modern attempts to re-frame the American Revolution as some sort of "conservative" revolution that merely preserved a way of life, and was not a radical departure from the past.

"...the deep-seated radicalism of the American Revolution goes far beyond this. It was inextricably linked both to the radical revolutions that went before and to the ones, particularly the French, that succeeded it."

Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in.

Where police fail, as at Ferguson and in Detroit, private firms and volunteers have stepped in. And yet the state continues to claim that its employed enforcers are a thin blue line between order and chaos.

Many advocates for socialized medicine point to the World Health Organization's claim that US healthcare ranks below dozens of other countries. But these rankings are biased in favor of cheap health care over quality health care.

Some are now debating over whether or not the Ferguson riots are in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party. While the Tea Party itself may seem relatively innocent, the violence of the revolution itself was not nearly so innocent.

Interviewed by host Paul Molloy on the Freedom Works radio program, Mark Thornton discusses how the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act impacted the America