Why the Terrible Destruction of the Civil War?
It “was not inevitable,” writes Goldfield. Rather, it was “America’s greatest failure.”
U.S. History
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Auction Off the State
The government has a huge collection of assets that could be sold to the private sector. Going, going, gone!
Here, the State Is Nowhere to Be Seen
To Thoreau, the only true duty, which every man owed to himself, is living as deeply and honestly as possible. Politics is not part of that.
Introduction to ‘Liberty Defined’
I use the term “liberal” without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the
America’s Will to War: The Turning Point
The major cause of the transformation from freedom to servitude has been America's involvement in war and preparation for war.
Is Budget Austerity Modern-Day Hooverism?
Is cutting spending like repeating Herbert Hoover's errors? No, and saying it again and again doesn't make it true. The big-spending Hoover did more to intervene in the peacetime economy than any prior president. Indeed, he set in motion all of the things that FDR later did in the New Deal.
The Freedom to Cross a Border
A DUI is one of the infractions that can cause a de facto iron curtain to fall across the Canadian-US border, separating friends and family; other infractions include possession of marijuana or even a medical-marijuana card, shoplifting, and an arrest for attending a rally.
A Split in the Right Wing
When the National Review crowd injected evangelical anticommunism into right-wing circles, the conservatives found themselves split into two broad camps.
The Bad Word
Fascism's roots are not indigenous to Italy but are to be found in all Western societies; the New Deal is but one example.
The Disarming Honesty of Henry David Thoreau
If you want to know Thoreau, you had better pass up the diagnosticians and get down to reading Thoreau himself.
