U.S. History

For the most part, the Great Society represented the culmination of economic, political, and intellectual developments dating back a century, write

For the most part, the Great Society represented the culmination of economic, political, and intellectual developments dating back  a century.

It “was not inevitable,” writes Goldfield. Rather, it was “America’s greatest failure.”

The government has a huge collection of assets that could be sold to the private sector. Going, going, gone!

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.

I use the term “liberal” without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the

The major cause of the transformation from freedom to servitude has been America's involvement in war and preparation for war.

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.

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.

When the National Review crowd injected evangelical anticommunism into right-wing circles, the conservatives found themselves split into two broad camps.