All Posts Tagged With: "Civil War"
When in the Course of Human Events: The Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams
Rowman & Littlefield · 2000 · 272 pages · $24.95 Reviewed by Joseph R. Stromberg Some reviewers have had a hard time with the present book. They imagine that there is a single historical thesis therein, one subject to definitive proof or refutation. In this, I believe they are mistaken. Instead, what we have here [...]
1Dec2001 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 1 comment | ContinuedRegulation, the Constitution, and the Economy: The Regulatory Road to Serfdom by James Rolph Edwards
University Press of America • 1998 • 256 pages • $52.00 cloth; $32.50 paperback James Rolph Edwards invokes a Hayekian legacy in the title of his book, Regulation, the Constitution, and the Economy: The Regulatory Road to Serfdom. In light of Hayek’s belief that freedom cannot endure unless every generation restates and reemphasizes its value, [...]
1Feb2000 | Royce Van Tassell | 0 comments | ContinuedStates’ Rights Revisited
Lamenting the Supreme Court’s recent batch of pro-federalism decisions, the New York Times termed the Court’s newfound affinity for states’ rights “Supreme mischief,” “deeply disturbing” to right-thinkers everywhere. One expects such talk from dedicated cheerleaders for centralized power. What’s more disturbing, however, is the extent to which the Times’s perspective has gained credence among advocates [...]
1Dec1999 | Gene Healy | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Civil War’s Tragic Legacy
The Civil War produced at least two important outcomes. First, although it was not President Lincoln’s intent, it freed slaves in the Confederate States. Second, it settled the question of whether states could secede from the Union. The causes of and the issues surrounding America’s most costly war in terms of battlefield casualties are still [...]
1Jan1999 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedIndividualist Feminism: The Lost Tradition
Women are, and should be treated as, the equals of men. For many, that sentiment forms the core of feminist theory and policy. But historically, there has been substantial disagreement within the feminist movement over the meaning of the term equality. Does it mean: equality under existing laws; equality under laws more just than existing [...]
1Aug1998 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedFederal Government Growth Before the New Deal
Professor Holcombe teaches economics at Florida State University. Popular opinion holds that most of the credit (or blame) for the incredible growth of the federal government should go to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. While Roosevelt certainly was a willing participant in that process, the federal government began its amazingly rapid growth [...]
1Sep1997 | Randall G. Holcombe | 0 comments | ContinuedMilitary Follies and Memorial Day Memories
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Washington, D.C., is ever the city of contradictions. Eloquent speeches about freedom by legislators voting to limit liberty. Emotional promises to aid [...]
1Sep1997 | Doug Bandow | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Southern Tradition: Implications for Modern Decentralism
Mr. Woods, a founding member of the Southern League, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. This paper was delivered in June 1996 at the E.F. Schumacher Society Decentralist Conference held at Williams College in Massachusetts. The American tradition of decentralism has attracted adherents on both sides of the ideological spectrum and from [...]
1Dec1996 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedEmancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War
Mr. Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and columnist for The Freeman. He is the author of several books, most recently, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Is there anything new that could conceivably be written about the Civil War? No other conflict so enthralls U.S. amateur historians. [...]
1Dec1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Not Freedom! America’s Revolt Against Big Government
Wesley Allen Riddle is assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, where he teaches Advanced American History and the American Political Tradition. He is also a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation for the 1996-97 term. The Kennedy brothers of Louisiana have followed up their successful title The [...]
1Aug1996 | Wesley Allen Riddle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe U.S. Presidents and the Money Issue
Greg Kaza is a Michigan state representative. He has taught economics and history at Northwood University, where he served as an adjunct professor. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the most important presidential campaign ever to revolve around an issue largely ignored in contemporary politics—monetary policy. The Republicans, with William McKinley as their candidate, [...]
1Apr1996 | Greg Kaza | 1 comment | ContinuedThomas Jefferson’s Sophisticated, Radical Vision of Liberty
Jefferson expressed a sophisticated, radical vision of liberty with awesome grace and eloquence. He affirmed that all people are entitled to liberty, regardless what laws might say. If laws don’t protect liberty, he declared, then the laws are illegitimate, and people may rebel. While Jefferson didn’t originate this idea, he put it in a way that set afire the imagination of people around the world, Moreover, he developed a doctrine for strictly limiting the power of government, the most dangerous threat to liberty everywhere.
1Jul1995 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Gold Was Money–How Gold Could Be Money Again
1. Gold and Silver: The Money of the Constitution Students, scholars, and some curious people who occasionally stray into the text of the U.S. Constitution are properly puzzled by what seems to be that document’s “plain language” and some of the things they see around them in the world today. One such thing is the [...]
1Apr1995 | Richard H. Timberlake | 5 comments | ContinuedLand Control as Mind Control
Mr. Chodes is the Communications Director for the Libertarian Party of New York City. Old Policies Still Plague Us Can a Southern farmer’s alleged racist values be transformed into “progressive” thinking (by Washington’s standards) through changes in what he plants? Can the development of new strains of crops, which can flourish despite extremes in temperature, [...]
1Feb1995 | John Chodes | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Conscription Idea
“The principle of voluntarism should not be compromised.” That policy on civilian manpower was recommended to the National Security Council in a May, 1954, report from the Office of Defense Mobilization. The report suggests an extensive program of voluntary incentives as the best method to secure the most effective use of civilian manpower in time [...]
1May1955 | Dean Russell | 2 comments | Continued-
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