U.S. History

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.

Fascism's roots are not indigenous to Italy but are to be found in all Western societies; the New Deal is but one example. 

If you want to know Thoreau, you had better pass up the diagnosticians and get down to reading Thoreau himself.

The fake version of history says that without a central bank or its lesser cousin, a national bank, we had nothing but boom, bust, and sorrow — but since the creation of the Federal Reserve System, it's been nothing but sunshine and lollipops. Let us take a look.

The illusion of wartime prosperity is rooted in how national income was calculated and in how the statistics were compiled, writes Art Carden.