U.S. History

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David Gordon

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.

Brendan Brown

The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.

James Bovard

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then.

Ron Paul

To normal people the idea of peace breaking out in the Middle East is a wonderful thing. But Washington is anything but normal.

Jason Morgan

We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.

John Kennedy

Perhaps the most pernicious Keynesian myth is that a market economy needs wars in order to keep full employment. Wars don't stimulate the economy; they depress it.

David Gordon

David Gordon explores how Abraham Lincoln's stated view on secession was fundamentally Hobbesian, cynical, and violent. 

Patrick Barron

A generation ago, the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR collapsed. Today, US monetary authorities are bringing down our own country.