U.S. History

Should political reform be the result of a much-discussed comprehensive plan? Or should it come about through decentralized decision-making that deals with the situations at hand?

Bud Light executives thought customers wanted the beer to partner with a "transgender" celebrity. Or executives simply didn't care what customers thought. In any case, executives are now paying the price. 

Recorded at The Depot Craft Brewery & Distillery in Reno, Nevada on May 20th, 2023.

Modern Western culture is dominated by demands for "social justice." But how does one even define this term, and does social justice even produce justice in the end?

Taxpayer-funded company Dominion is suing private parties for saying things the company doesn't like. These lawsuits illustrate how defamation laws can be used to destroy free speech.

Mises had hoped that democracy would lead to free societies after World War II ended. He did not foresee the illiberal turn in the West in the last decade.

While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.

Like so many other Indian tribes, the Cherokees found out the US government has a penchant for not abiding by its own treaties.

One of the great fictions of US history is that the USA's foreign policy was based on noninterventionism until the nation was forced to enter World War II.

In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.