The Cultural Pessimism of the 1619 Project
"The 1619 Project distorts the scholarship on slavery, finance, and U.S. economic history." by Peter A. Coclanis There is a lot of talk in the U.S. today about “cultural pessimism.” ...
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Essential Strategy: 4 Steps to Nullify Federal Gun Control
By: Michael Boldin If you’re like me, you’ve been hearing a constant barrage of attacks on the 2nd amendment – and your natural right to keep and bear arms.Personally – I ...
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Respect the Fed? No, End the Fed
By: Ron Paul President Joe Biden has unveiled a three-part plan to fight inflation — or at least make people think he is fighting inflation. One part of the plan involves ...
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The First Salvo in the Ratification Debates: James Wilson’s State House Speech
By: Bob Fiedler While most people today think of the Federalist Papers as the leading defense of the Constitution’s original meaning, it was actually a speech by James Wilson that had a far ...
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Are You Morally Required to Obey?
By: Michael Boldin A lot of people seem to treat government acts as something they’re morally required to obey – until repealed. But this flies in the face of the ...
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Lessons from the Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774
By: TJ Martinell Most people are familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but not a lot of people know about the aftermath, and how that experience helped shape the Constitution and ...
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Refuse to Cooperate: How the Colonies Responded to the Boston Port Act
By: Mike Maharrey James Madison gave us a blueprint to stop “unwarrantable” government actions (or even “warrantable” actions that happen to be unpopular) in Federalist #46. Madison wrote that “a refusal to cooperate with ...
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Lysander Spooner’s Strategy to Stop Unconstitutional Acts
By: Mike Maharrey Resist. That was Lysander Spooner’s strategy to stop unconstitutional acts that was very much in line with James Madison and other prominent founders. Spooner was a prominent 19th-century ...
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Fact Check: No, overruling Roe v. Wade would not endanger other rights
By: Rob Natelson In a previous essay, I surmised that the purpose of leaking the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade (pdf) was to expose one or more justices to ...
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Using War to Assault Freedom
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Most judges and lawyers agree that the war on drugs in the past 50 years has seriously diminished the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. ...
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