Have Americans forgotten how to be free? When warfare erupted between American colonists and the British government, the colonists believed that they had God-given rights that protected them against state power. Would that Americans today believed the same thing.
A past article, presenting a “libertarian” viewpoint of nuclear weapons, has two choices, but pointedly leaves out a third choice: nuclear disarmament. According to Murray Rothbard, disarmament is the only true moral choice and also the most practical.
Though stories of the masses are valuable and insightful, the lives of magnates of industry, and the lesser magnates—such as the owner of the mine where my grandfather labored—also need to be told.
Trump has even dubbed himself “a Tariff Man.” This is nothing new, however, his frequent claims regarding the US economy during the Gilded Age need scrutiny.
South Vietnam ceased to exist as a separate country 50 years ago. What followed was an object lesson on the failures of socialism, as Marxist ideology turned Vietnam into one of the world's poorest countries. Vietnam‘s “second revolution” was successfully embracing a market economy.
When modern progressives claim to support equity, what they really mean is the confiscation of wealth and transferal of private property to politically-favored groups. These policies have a sorry history from Reconstruction and continued through the 20th century communist regimes.
Prophetic Statesmanship is worth reading as an example of the misplaced ingenuity with which intelligent scholars can defend ridiculous views. Efforts to unify Americans in the worship of the godlike Abraham Lincoln cannot succeed.
The sun finally is setting on the world order that emerged after World War II, including the Cold War. This is not for lack of trying by US and European politicians, but they cannot stop the entire apparatus from collapsing under its own weight.
While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a different story. Things came to a head April 19, 1775, touching off the American Revolution.
When constituting what a “well-regulated militia,” looks like, look no further than the first armed conflict of the War of the Revolution.
