U.S. History

Dr. David Gordon, in this week’s Friday Philosophy, takes on the Fourteenth Amendment, looking at David Benner’s critical study of this post-Civil War legal move by the Radical Republicans.

Henry David Thoreau is supposedly an American icon and his Walden an alleged work of genius. In truth, Thoreau was a fraud and his anti-capitalist screeds were intellectually and economically incoherent.

Thanks to Marxist historians, Americans are told that slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries was centered around the United States. The truth is that slavery was widely practiced in Africa long before America was settled and has continued to this present day.

President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.

H.W. Brands offers a refreshing detour from the usual smears lobbed at Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee.

M.E. Bradford, a self-described southern conservative, understood what leftist egalitarians did not: liberty cannot coexist with egalitarianism.

Murray Rothbard spoke often in class at UNLV about the “lone nut theory,” questioning if the many political assassins acted alone.

From September 12, 2001—armed with a simple knowledge of the publicly-available foreign policy history of the 1990s—9/11 was a tragedy, and a terrible crime that demands justice, but it should not have been a surprise.

Modern political life in the U.S. is increasingly defined by violence and toleration of violence against one's perceived enemies. The murder of Charlie Kirk has exposed the left's endorsement of deadly violence as a political tool.

Political elites insisted that the 9/11 attacks occurred because the US Government lacked power and authority. Unfortunately, the elites got their wish and Americans received war, economic calamity, and massive government debt in return.