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The Decline of American Liberalism
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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One of the most striking facts about American history is how in a country born in old-style liberalism, the meaning of liberalism would not only change but be completely upended: liberalism now means its opposite. In this massively important work of intellectual history, historian Arthur Ekirch explains that the change is bound up with attitudes
Man and Nature in America
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: The Environment, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy
From the author: I have written Man and Nature in America in the hope of providing today’s readers with some historical perspective on the problem implied in this title. Since I am an historian and not a scientist, I cannot claim expert knowledge or original wisdom in all the fields I have surveyed. But I have tried to summarize fairly the
Civilian and the Military
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy
Do you have doubts about American wars abroad? Do you worry about their cost, the drain in American resources, the resentments they foster abroad, the death and destruction they bring on all sides? Do you have a sense that these are not truly consistent with the American spirit of commerce and friendship? People who think this way are made to feel
The Fresh Air following Revolution
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Interventionism, Biographies, Free Markets, U.S. History
Murray Rothbard , celebrated as a libertarian author and economic historian, has, with the assistance of historian Leonard P. Liggio , embarked on the ambitious task of writing a multivolume survey of American history. In our age of professionalization and specialization, this is obviously a most difficult endeavor. Mastery of the secondary works,
Democracy and Laissez-Faire: A New York Case Study
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Political Theory, Free Markets, U.S. History
Well back in its history, in the late 1830s , New York State was spending and lending money lavishly. By the early 1840s , the rapidly mounting debt had occasioned a severe financial crisis. To avert the imminent possibility of bankruptcy and default, the state legislature in 1842 passed what was known as “the stop and tax law,” a levy of one mill
Harold J. Laski: The Liberal Manque or Lost Libertarian?
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Monetary Theory, Other Schools of Thought, Political Theory, Biographies
A generation after his death in 1950, Harold Laski, the eminent political scientist, socialist, and British Labour Party leader, is almost forgotten apart from an occasional monograph analyzing his political theories. Yet he remains significant and, rather paradoxically perhaps, his ideas are important for American libertarian thought. Volume 4,
Democracy and Laissez Faire: the New York State Constitution of 1846
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Political Theory, U.S. Economy, U.S. History
Volume 1, Number 4 (1977) New York’s current financial woes have a precedent, and perhaps a solution, in the pages of the distant past. Well back in its history, in the late 1830s, New York State was spending and lending money lavishly. By the early 1840s, the rapidly mounting debt had occasioned a severe financial crisis. To avert the imminent
The Reform Mentality, War, Peace, and the National State: From the progressives to Vietnam
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy
That the modern reform mentality has been imbued with a statist philosophy leading to imperialism and war is perhaps no surprise to libertarians. They may not always be aware, however, of the extent to which a statist philosophy, vaguely Neo-Hegelian, has characterized both American reform movements and European social democracy. Indeed much of
Democracy and Laissez Faire: the New York State Constitution of 1846
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Author: Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
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Category: U.S. History
New York’s current financial woes have a precedent, and perhaps a solution, in the pages of the distant past. Well back in its history, in the late 1830s, New York State was spending and lending money lavishly. By the early 1840s, the rapidly mounting debt had occasioned a severe financial crisis. To avert the imminent possibility of bankruptcy