U.S. History

After 1820, growing numbers of propertyless squatters were voters, and this was an opportunity for politicians to offer cheap land in exchange for loyalty to the Democratic Party.

To seriously threaten the regime, one must attack it at its roots. This would require rejecting the modern civil rights legal regime, something modern Buckleyite conservatives and James Lindsay-style liberals are not interested in, and unites paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians.

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical worker exploitation, and socialism is the only solution. In truth, market competition is the answer. 

Ryan, Tho, and Kerry Baldwin take a look at why some politicians say they're "nationalists."

Independence Day is not a celebration of "America." It's a commemoration of secession and armed revolt.

The conservative judges chose to perpetuate the court's well-established and disastrous use of the Equal Protection Clause. The justices were careful to protect and strengthen federal power. 

As Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, they would do well to remember that those who fought for independence would not support the Leviathan state that the USA has become.

If my repeated insistence that I do not consent is insufficient to indicate my lack of consent, then what kind of crazy moral system is this?

Ryan and Tho take a look at the legacy of Daniel Ellsberg's heroic leak of the Pentagon Papers and the evils of government secrecy.