U.S. History

The guiding motif of what we might call the "old American Right" was a deep and passionate commitment to individual liberty, and to the belief that this liberty, in the personal and the economic spheres, was gravely menaced by the growth and power of the Leviathan state, at home and abroad.

John V. Denson discusses the world-changing events that happened between January and June 1919: disastrous decisions that resulted in creating a platform for Hitler to rise in Germany, the Second World War, and beyond.

Lew Rockwell writes on how to square universal rights with radical decentralism in politics and globalization in economics.

The authors of Time on the Cross rewrote the history of antebellum slavery and ushered in the cliometric revolution.

The literature on free banking has sharply altered its focus in the last two decades.

While studying colonial period business practices and property rights issues, for a business & finance history class, I read Carl Watner’

I was particularly moved by this passage from Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Linc

Michael Lind’s study of Lincoln illustrates the old saying, "God protect me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself." 

Thomas Woods writes on the famous Fr. Charles Coughlin, whose writing on money is wrongly admired by some even today.

The Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict against Arthur Andersen Company, writes William Anderson, but it came too late to save the firm.