U.S. History
Ron Desantis Plans to Revive Florida’s State Militia
Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order.
Paul Gottfried: The End of the Old Right
Nobody is a better sociologist of American conservatism than Dr. Gottfried, and nobody is more compelling and erudite when it comes explaining how the Right went so horribly wrong.
America’s Radical Revolution and the Constitutional Coup
In Episode 2 of the Liberty vs. Power Podcast, Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop discuss the lasting tension between the Spirit of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787.
The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926–1929
The new "gold-exchange standard" of the 1920s was a new concoction of the world's regimes after the Great War. It certainly wasn't a true gold standard.
The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926–1929
Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
I was astounded at how many despots the World Bank was propping up. Bankrolling tyrants is the equivalent of a Fugitive Slave Act for an entire nation, preventing a mass escape of political victims.
The “Acid Rain” Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex
"Science" is now indistinguishable from politics. As the "acid rain" hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, "follow the science" is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.
Ron Desantis Plans to Revive Florida’s State Militia
Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order.
The Real Reason Politicians Want Legal Cannabis Is Tax Money
Colorado and Washington State have shown governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic how they've been missing out on collecting taxes from cannabis sales.