News on Secession
A Small Revolution
Jeff Deist writes: Dr. Robert Murphy and I enjoyed a robust discussion of the current political landscape this past weekend at the University of Central Florida. A significant percentage of attendees, maybe half, agreed with the proposition that the US is past the...
Culture Wars and Secession
Recently the Mises Institute held a seminar in Orlando titled "The Uncertain Prospects for Liberty" with Jeff Deist and Robert Murphy. Here is Murphy's lecture on culture wars. https://mises.org/system/tdf/02_Murphy_Orlando_20171209.mp3 Source: Culture Wars and...
Independence for Catalonia, Bavaria, Veneto
by Walter Williams Officials in Catalonia, Spain’s richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of independence from Spain. The Spanish authorities opposed the...
In Europe, Exploited Regional Populations Are Growing Restless
by Jeff Thomas Recently, the people of two of Italy’s most prosperous regions voted in a referendum, on whether they wished to have greater autonomy from Rome. The referendum is non-binding, but that’s not what’s most significant in the results. What is significant is...
Did Tariffs Really Cause the American Civil War?
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...
Jeff Deist on Why Smaller is Better
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,...
The March to America’s Civil War
Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War.
This map shows the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures
Which one is yours? In his fourth book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US. "The country has been arguing about...
Creating Free Private Cities
Interesting speech by Titus Gebel at the recent Property and Freedom Society 2017 meeting. Let's decentralize and get free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_4gTVPpmU
Secession is as American as apple pie
As the European Union struggles under the reality and threat of countries or regions leaving it (as discussed in "Humpty Dumpty in slow motion"), it might be thought that the United States of America represents a haven of stability. But the Southern Confederacy was...
