Jeffrey Rogers Hummel joins Bob Murphy for an in-depth discussion of the economics of slavery, touching on subtleties such as the labor/leisure trade-off, and the recent claims by some historians that slavery was efficient.
Daniel McAdams speaks at the 2019 Ron Paul Symposium in Lake Jackson, Texas.
School children learn that there are three branches of government. In actual practice, there is a fourth branch, the permanent bureaucracy which includes legions of civilian and military agents, officers, and administrators committed to protecting their own interests.
Even The New York Times now admits there is a deep state — and that it serves its own agenda while ignoring the elected civilian government.
In the 19th century, the common view of federal soldiers was "as slackers on the public dole" and people with "such a lazy life," as to be "certainly not worth their country's crying about."
Scott Horton speaks at the 2019 Ron Paul Symposium in Lake Jackson, Texas.
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
The shift toward empire has brought about the destruction of American liberty and privacy here at home. That’s what the surveillance, torture, and indefinite detentions of American citizens are all about — to supposedly protect us from the dangers produced by U.S. intervention abroad.
For the Pentagon, happy days are here again. With a budget of more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come.
Lindsey O’Rourke has written a devastating indictment of the foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War and after.
