U.S. History

In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard conceptualizes “the defense of the rights of person and property” as the foundation of libertari

Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that the northern states opposed slavery while only the South supported it. Like all narratives, it leaves out important information.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on the Tom Woods Show.

Harry Jaffa suggested that Americans should adopt a “civil religion,” with Lincoln as a quasi-divine figure. This, of course, makes the state into a quasi-divine institution. 

Since the end of the 19th Century, much of US history has been marred by meddling in the affairs of other nations. From William McKinley's Spanish-American War to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, US meddling has created tragedy and chaos abroad and at home.

Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize governance away from the old decentralized political model. It still is accomplishing that purpose.

The debate over use of nuclear weapon is built upon the assumption that they‘ve only been used twice, both against Japan. However, if we expand the definition of use to how we apply it to other kinds of weapons, then nuclear weapons have been used too many times.

Mises Institute president Tom DiLorenzo joined the Tom Woods Show to discuss The Axis of Evil: the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

US entry into WWI assured a decisive Allied victory, but it also assured a victory for politically-connected US bankers who used the new Federal Reserve System to send newly-printed money to the Allies.

While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, revisionist historians see a series of complex events in which the political agenda of Radical Republicans dominated the South.