Book and Movie Reivews
The 200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny
This is the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the best American books on trade policy by one of the most thoughtful and least appreciated political analysts of the Founding Fathers’ era. I ran into John Taylor of Caroline when I was roaming the...
Centralized Power as the Counterrevolution
A Review of Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 How is it that America became a “strong but limited” government, and the world’s richest and most free country? And what has happened since? That is the central question both...
How the National Bank Destroyed the Limits of Constitution
The Federal Reserve is the engine that drives the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world. We can trace the origins of this modern central bank back to the creation of the First Bank of the United States, even before ratification of the Bill of...
Book Review: Constitution Owner’s Manual
What does the Constitution mean, and who gets to decide? Such a question has been answered in written form by political pundits, lawyers, and academics. Most of these accounts, however, rely upon a pre-determined ideological narrative that routinely obfuscates an...