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...
Slavery and the Electoral College: A Misguided Assumption
Well-known legal scholar Akil Reed Amar made waves recently, arguingย that a single comment from James Madison proves that the Electoral College had an intrinsic pro-slavery bent and was designed to perpetuate the institution. In fact, the Electoral College had little...
Attacking Our Nation’s Founders
During Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. But it is...