U.S. History

Harry Jaffa's new book on Lincoln overlooks the implications of a crucial fact: Some of the the most passionate opponents of forced political union were the radical abolitionists. Myles Kantor explains.

Attachment to tradition and free-market sensibilities are often thought to be in conflict. What, then, are we to make of the new Richard Weaver collection that recommends Ludwig von Mises to all students? 

Frank Chodorov proposed a sure fix for every case of waste, fraud, and abuse in government: abolish the program. William Stepp explains.

Lincoln’s main objective was protectionism for Northern manufacturers and the creation of a massive spoils system, writes Thomas DiLorenzo

Section 31 (a), a remnant of the New Deal that hits every stock trade, rakes in billions of play money for the government. Yet they call it a fee, not a tax.

A relatively balanced treatment shows they were mainly the products of enterprise, not just corruption. A review by Clifford Thies

Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.

He's been searching for a legacy for years, and now at last he leaves two, says William Anderson: a recession and high energy prices.

The unhappy truth is that Thomas Jefferson, a great libertarian theorist when out of office, was an outright disaster in power, writes Joseph Stromberg.

When, precisely, did a foreign power ever threaten to take it away? All threats to voting rights have been domestic, write Joseph Stromberg.