by Rhett | Jun 13, 2018 | Ideas
Chris Calton continues his Historical Controversies podcast which is an in-depth review of the Civil War. After Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the “Southern Rebellion,” the Upper South states reconsidered their decision to remain in the Union. As...
by Rhett | Mar 27, 2018 | Ideas
by Fred Reed I see that a man named Sessions, apparently Washington’s Attorney General, threatens to unleash the coercive powers of the federal government against the state of Colorado, his reason being that he does not like the state’s policy with regard to...
by Rhett | Mar 23, 2018 | Ideas
by Murray Rothbard The recent rioting and virtual civil war in Northern Ireland points out, both for libertarians and for the world at large, the vital importance of pushing for and attaining the goal of national liberation for all oppressed people. Aside from being a...
by Rhett | Feb 26, 2018 | Ideas
It doesn’t need to be in writing for you to be able to do...
by Rhett | Dec 5, 2017 | Ideas
by Chris Calton In the first episode of the new season of Historical Controversies, which will focus on the sectional crises that led to the Civil War, I gave a brief explanation of my problem with the “Tariff Thesis” for the cause of southern secession. My arguments...
by Rhett | Dec 4, 2017 | Ideas
Virtually every aspect of human life becomes more decentralized every day. Technology makes the old hub-and-spoke model of organizations obsolete; highly diffuse and ever-changing networks are the order of the day. So why is governance going in the other direction,...