Archive for Clarence B. Carson
The late Clarence Carson was a prolific historian and Freeman contributor.
Capitalism: Yes and No
capitalism gained its currency from Marx and others as a blunderbuss word, misnames what it claims to identify, and carries with it connotations which unfit it for precise use in discourse.
24Apr2009 | Clarence B. Carson | 31 comments | ContinuedAmerica’s 30 Years War
As a child of eight, Balint Vazsonyi experienced National Socialism (Nazism) when the Germans took control of his native Hungary during World War II. In 1948, the Communist Party came to power, followed by Soviet occupation and the elimination of all opposition. Those events left a lasting impression on him, and he concluded that Nazism [...]
1May1999 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedFounding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
Dr. Carson, a contributing editor of The Freeman, has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. America in Gridlock, 1985-1995, the sixth volume in his Basic History of the United States, will be published later this year. Near the close of this book, the author quotes John Marshall speaking to the House of [...]
1Sep1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe World in the Grip of an Idea Revisited
The notion of a work under the title The World in the Grip of an Idea began to take shape in my mind in 1976, and I began the writing of it in the fall of that year (which was also the thirtieth anniversary of FEE). A somewhat amended and expanded version was published as [...]
1May1996 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | ContinuedThomas Jefferson: Liberty and Power
Dr. Clarence Carson is an American historian, a prolific author, and a longtime contributor to The Freeman. This essay is based on his newest book, Basic American Government, which is available from The American Textbook Committee, Rte. 1, Box 13, Wadley, AL 36276, for $32.95 hardcover. It is doubtful that Thomas Jefferson could have been [...]
1Apr1993 | Clarence B. Carson | 3 comments | ContinuedFarming Is a Business
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books, and has just completed the last of a five-volume text, A Basic History of the United States. The rules of economy apply to farming as much as they do to any other business. The plight of [...]
1Aug1986 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Enterprise: The Key to Prosperity
Dr. Carson is an experienced observer and analyst of political and economic affairs. He is a specialist in American history with his Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, and is currently st work on a five-volume text, A Basic History of the United States. Free enterprise is widely acclaimed [...]
1Oct1985 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedA Credit Expansion Economy
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American Intellectual history. He Is the author of several books, end currently is working on the third of a five-volume text, A Basic History of the United States. We have a penchant for naming things around my house. For example, at one time we owned two [...]
1Mar1985 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism: Yes and No
Dr. Carson specializes in American intellectual history. He has written a number of books, including Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America. His latest are volumes I and II of a series, A Basic History of the United States. Some terms and phrases are well suited to lucid discourse and even debate. This is [...]
1Feb1985 | Clarence B. Carson | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Fruits of Independence
Dr. Carson specializes in American intellectual history. This article is reprinted here by permission from his book series now in preparation, A Basic History of the United States. The Constitution of 1787 was a culmination. It was the culmination of a decade of constitution making in the states and for the United States. It was [...]
1Sep1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Collectivist Fallacy
Dr. Carson specializes in American intellectual history. He has written a number of books, including Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America, and The Colonial Experience, the first in a 5-volume series, A Basic History of the United States. A class to which I belong is either going or has gone out of existence. [...]
1Jul1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedUnionism Revisited
Dr. Carson specializes in American intellectual history. He has written a number of books, including the one here discussed: Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America. His most recent book, published by Western Goals, is the first in a 5-volume series, A Basic History of the United States. This first volume deals with The [...]
1Apr1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedEvading The Issue
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history, He is the author of several books, his most recent being Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union In America. He is working st present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. Reason has not fared [...]
1Feb1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760 – 1805 Edited by Charles S. Hyneman and Donald S. Lutz
(Liberty Press, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250), 1983 2 volumes: volume I, 704 + viii pages; volume II, 713 + xii pages $28.50 set cloth; $13.50 paperback Men of the founding era of the United States had apparently never heard that it is futile to reason with people, that minds are not changed by [...]
1Jan1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Need for Political Theory
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books, his most recent being Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America. He is working st present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. That which constitutes our [...]
1Jan1984 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedJudicial Monopoly Over the Constitution: Jefferson’s View
Do the Federal courts have a monopoly of the interpretation of the Constitution? Further, are the judges, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions . . .”?[1] There is little reason to doubt that the prevailing view in the country would give a resounding affirmative answer to the first question. There are dissenters, of course, but so far as they are numerous and widely influential, their dissents are to particular decisions or opinions of the courts, not to the propriety of the courts making some decision.
1Oct1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Dilemmas of Public Education
A great many issues have reached the level of public debate today concerning public education. They range from questions that plumb the philosophic depths to everyday problems of student discipline. They range, that is, from questions as to the origin of life and of plant and animal species on this planet to the question of whether teachers should be permitted to use corporal punishment in the classroom.
1Sep1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | Continued-
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