Empire as the Price of Bureaucracy
Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.
U.S. History
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State to State Secession Movements
One type of secession active in 2025 is when one or more rural counties seek to secede from the current state to join a neighboring state.
Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny
Five years ago, the spread of the Covid-19 virus gave politicians the excuse to go full totalitarian. Their fear-based campaign consisted of authoritarian measures that were based on lies and half-truths.
The Importance of Constitutional Government
Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution as permitting it.
Fatal Freedom
In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death rates from disease suffered by newly-freed slaves because of neglect by Union armies.
More on the Presumed Theft of Gold that Became the Fort Knox Holdings
The fallout of FDR‘s gold adventures was far worse than reneging on US gold bond redemption. FDR declared that the price of gold would henceforth be increased to $35 per ounce from $20.67 per ounce, which immediately devalued the US dollar.
Did the Robinson-Patman Act Bring Lower Food Prices?
The Atlantic recently published an article claiming that modern “food deserts” exist because the government fails to enforce a New Deal law meant to force up prices and stifle competition. Once again, we see how progressives push their economic illiteracy on everyone else.
Nineteenth Century Jeffersonian Democrats
When one thinks of Jeffersonian Democrats, the founding of the US comes to mind. However, the Jeffersonian ideals were held well into the 1860s by people who believed that the states created the union, not the other way around.
A Slow and Beautiful Revenge
When Benjamin Franklin’s older brother, James, used his anti-establishment newspaper to criticize the Crown’s lax attitude towards pirating along t
Radical Reconstruction and State Omnipotence
The Southern Reconstruction, while portrayed by progressives as virtuous northerners trying to rebuild the South, was actually an attempt to use state power to direct social and economic life there.
