U.S. History

While neoconservativism as we know it has US origins, one of its versions is alive and well south of our border. Unfortunately, neoconservatism has made inroads in Latin America.

Even though the US had a semilibertarian revolution, there are few libertarians in representative governance.

Even though our legal authorities treat smugglers as criminals, smugglers actually are promoters of liberty who usually break unjust laws. The US was practically founded on smuggling.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan—a political show trial, to be sure—David Gordon reviews Danilo Zolo’s, Victor’s Justice, which examined the Nuremberg Trials following World War II.

While our political “leaders” insist that the government is “protecting” us, it offers the same kind of “protection” that mobsters offer: pay us to “protect” you, or we burn down your place with you in it.

Even though our legal authorities treat smugglers as criminals, smugglers actually are promoters of liberty who usually break unjust laws. The US was practically founded on smuggling.

Even though the US had a semilibertarian revolution, there are few libertarians in representative governance.

The American Revolution was an ideology of natural rights and individual liberty, and it was revolutionary to its very marrow. 

Most people believe that the state is a necessary entity for securing private property rights. However, a study of the American West before the territories became states shows us a different reality where communities protected their property without state intervention.

Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.