U.S. History

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.

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.