Politics

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad corporations, and a government-run central bank to pay for it all.

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad corporations, and a government-run central bank to pay for it all.

As Elon Musk takes on federal agencies, the Washington establishment is trying to frame him as an unelected plutocrat using government to help himself and other rich people at the expense of the poor.

Libertarian philosophy is based upon the non-aggression principle, but a libertarian society also needs institutions to help carry out those principles, especially for those that are victims of aggression by others.

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state government as intermediary.

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Ryan and Zachary Yost try to figure out if there is any consistent philosophy that guides Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

If federal funds are cut off from the Kennedy Center, I guess America will just have to go back to that “dark age” before the Kennedy Center opened in 1971.

In Germany, as elsewhere, “democracy” means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident political parties.