Although egalitarian interventionism constantly is wrecked on the shoals of reality, there is always a stable of new politicians eager to promote what Murray Rothbard called “a revolt against nature.”
In a recent New York Times column, Dartmouth professor Brooke Harrington claimed that Trump is undoing trust in our institutions while Franklin Roosevelt restored it. Clearly, Harrington doesn‘t know much about FDR—or Trump.
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Like other dissenters that came afterward, Garvey was hounded by the FBI. He remains a complex character even in death.
The bloodletting at the Department of Justice and the FBI has begun, and the mainstream media is portraying the purged agents as victims of a lawless Trump administration. But these agencies have been lawless for years and someone needs to bring them to heel.
Ryan McMaken and Bobby Gunther Walsh discuss birthright citizenship historically.
Wanjiru Njoya appears on Action Radio with Greg Penglis to discuss some of her recent articles.
Although a new presidential administration and Republican Congress have claimed support for civil liberties, support remains strong for the liberty-destroying FISA law. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the justices simply interpret the Constitution according to modern statist progressive viewpoints that fit their own progressive narratives.
No matter how the court rules on birthright citizenship (or anything else), it certainly won’t be the “last word” on the matter, and nothing is decided beyond the short term.
Europe has no countries that offer “birthright citizenship” anymore. The US and Canada are rare exceptions. Most countries that still have it are countries with net out-migration like Mexico.
