The Opponents of Public Education: New York State, 1870-1880
Significant opposition surrounded the development of state supported public secondary and higher education in New York State throughout the latter nineteenth century.
“Let the People See” Reflections on Ethnoreligious Forces in American Politics
In a long editorial entitled “Let the People See,” which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1852, Horace Greeley, the great e
Religion, Morality, and American Politics
Although historians had long missed the importance of religion in American politics, it has recently become a central topic.
Fishkin on Nozick’s Absolute Rights
In his recent work, Tyranny and Legitimacy, James Fishkin advances an argument against Roben Nozick’s theory of, what Fishkin calls, “a
The Proprietary Theory of Justice in the Libertarian Tradition
The central ideas of contemporary libertarianism have taken many centuries to evolve.
Could There Be Universal Natural Rights?
This paper is a consideration of whether there could be such universal and natural human rights, or whether such a suggestion is indeed “simp
Substantive Due Process and Labor Law
Substantive due process refers to a judicial policy that substantively protects, under the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendmen
An Economic Analysis of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, the Wagner Act, and the Labor Representation Industry
Economists have been relatively silent about the legislation from the 1930’s which supports unionism and collective bargaining in the United
Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and Contradiction Garrisonian Abolitionists and Nonviolence
Historian Alice Felt Tyler once used the expression “Freedom’s Ferment” to characterize the antebellum period in American history
Religion, Politics, and the American Polity: A Dynamic View of Relationships
For generations, political historians used “the thought of the palace” to describe politics and party battles.
American Isolationism, 1939-1941
The isolationist tradition in America, as it was manifested from 1939 to 1941, was based on two fundamental doctrines: avoidance of war in Europe and unimpaired freedom of action.