U.S. History

This year's political campaigns highlight at least one positive trend: the "best and brightest," who nearly wrecked us, are no longer wasting their talents serving the state. 

The nation state just isn't what it used to be--and it's a good thing too.

Gary Wills's new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb. 

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

That Nasa is a boondoggle and a socio-economic drain should be obvious to all. How does this bureaucracy continue to get away with it?

Two articles debunking the Fed's "con game," written on Greenspan's first appointment to the Fed and his later reappointment.

The violent protesters in Seattle, smashing windows and hating business, were anarchists of a certain type. Another anarchist tradition upholds private property as inviolable. 

How a bi-partisan accord on Social Security is still costing American taxpayers to this day and will continue to do so in the coming years.

There is nothing like a good target to get a writer going, and the contributors to this excellent symposium have found a very worthy target indeed.