Thomas Paine’s Forgotten Paper Money Takedown
“Money is Money, and Paper is Paper. All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise.” With those words, Thomas Paine went after what he saw as one of the greatest scams in history: governments claiming that paper is money. Through a series of...
How Two Vague Words Were Used to Gut the Entire Constitution
“…do we live under a limited or an unlimited government?” To you, that question probably sounds naive because the answer feels obvious. But in 1792, Thomas Jefferson saw it as the moment of truth. Alexander Hamilton had just laid out his vision for the “general...
The Ancient Playbook: Politics as the Science of Fraud
“Politics is the science of fraud.” And politicians? They’re the “professors of that science.” Richard Henry Lee wasn’t talking about a few bad apples. He was warning about the nature of the system itself. It has been the same playbook throughout history....