U.S. History

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.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho talk about recent court cases involving defamation claims, justifying libertarian skepticism of the entire concept.

Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan?

A new bill being sold as an "immigration control" measure is really a vast expansion of the federal regulatory and surveillance state known as "E-Verify."  The potential for abuse is enormous. 

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?

Once the Southern states accepted the Thirteenth Amendment, Lincoln was entirely content for the old Southern elites to resume their positions of power and for many blacks to continue in a condition little better than bondage.