FDR’s Tyrannical Gold Confiscation
Sometimes people say, “I guess we’ll just have to have a major economic or monetary crisis to wake people up and cause them to want a sound monetary system.” There is one big problem with that refrain, however: A crisis or emergency oftentimes induces people to move...
Today in History: FDR Issues Executive Order Creating American Concentration Camps
On this date in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt signed the infamous executive order 9066, authorizing the War Department to establish military zones that would serve as internment camps for mostly Japanese and Italian Americans. After the United States entered World War II,...
How Federal Programs Helped Rich White People and Corporations Steal Land from Poor Black Farmers
A lot of people believe that the federal government is a friend to liberty because it protected African-Americans against discrimination in the 1960s. But research shows that this was the exception to the rule, at best. Centralized authority, including the federal...