The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After
Chapter for Murray Rothbard's Origins of the Federal Reserve.
U.S. History
Displaying 1921 - 1930 of 3825
Harpers Ferry, Part 2: The Attack
Chris Calton continues the story of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.
Manufacturing Jobs Are Overrated
It is a myth that "we don't make things in America anymore." Thanks to automation, we simply need fewer people to make more stuff.
Gun Rights Don’t Come from the Second Amendment
Even without the Bill of Rights, the federal government has no legitimate authority to control what people read or what people own, including books and guns.
Jeff Sessions is Wrong: Nothing is “Settled”
Can political arrangements be dissolved peacefully? Legally? At the ballot box? By any mechanism short of outright violence and civil war?
The Rockefellers and Social Security
The Rockefellers and their intellectual and technocratic entourage were, indeed, central to the New Deal.
Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely
Excerpt from Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era, Patrick Newman, ed. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2017), from chap. 13 "World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals," pp. 428–36.
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 6: William Walker vs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Chris Calton concludes the story of William Walker and his hope of “Americanizing” Latin America.
Police: We’re the Experts — Don’t You Dare Criticize Us
Defenders of police incompetence are falling back on the claim that they are above criticism because they are the "experts."
