U.S. History

In Episode 2 of the Liberty vs. Power Podcast, Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop discuss the lasting tension between the Spirit of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787.

The new "gold-exchange standard" of the 1920s was a new concoction of the world's regimes after the Great War.  It certainly wasn't a true gold standard. 

I was astounded at how many despots the World Bank was propping up. Bankrolling tyrants is the equivalent of a Fugitive Slave Act for an entire nation, preventing a mass escape of political victims.

Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order.

"Science" is now indistinguishable from politics. As the "acid rain" hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, "follow the science" is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

Colorado and Washington State have shown governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic how they've been missing out on collecting taxes from cannabis sales.

In the first episode of the Liberty vs. Power Podcast, Tho Bishop and Patrick Newman take a deep dive into the intellectual framework of Rothbardian historical analysis.

The antiwar movement had been comatose for five years, ever since Obama ascended into the White House. But the potential of a new war in Syria revived moribund activists.

California has announced it seeks to become a "sanctuary state" for abortion should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. That is, the situation would return much to what it was before 1973.