How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America
The foreword to a new history of our controversial Founder written by Ron Paul.
The foreword to a new history of our controversial Founder written by Ron Paul.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick hold politicians (both D and R) accountable.
80 years after Prohibition, the Dark Ages of drinking are finally coming to an end.
Documentary navigates complex custody fight between Cuba, United States, and Cuban-Americans.
Helpful tips on dealing with racist monuments.
But guess what happens whenever art gets in the way of one of his developments?
After this weekend's white-supremacist rally in Virginia, more Southern cities announce plans to take down Confederate monuments.
The Truman war council discussed using atomic bombs just two weeks after the Korean War started.
Economist Deirdre McCloskey explains the roots of "The Great Enrichment" of the last 200 years.
America's Paper of Record, which officially turned against marijuana prohibition in 2014, spent most of the previous century credulously promoting it.
Democracy in Chains mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license
Douglass recognized that embracing freedom and liberty is a process that will continue to unfold and expand over time.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Nancy MacLean's conspiracy tract Democracy in Chains grossly misrepresents limited-government philosophy and the work of Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
Taking them down and putting up different statues is a reminder that in understanding the past, we shape the future.
"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment."
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
Is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?
Faith, dogma, and the constant reinvention of U.S. foreign policy
Looking at the past tests and develops the values you bring to your life-including a healthy contempt for authority.
Why government-funded agencies should display Confederate symbols only at historic sites or museums
"I have such a deeper appreciation for the punishment that black people received from their government for so long and the crass politics that perpetuated it."
How much more developed would Russia be if it didn't suffer from nearly a century of communism?
Political terrorism intersects with pettier motivations.
No, the U.S. did not isolate itself from the world between World War I and World War II.
Friday A/V Club: Mister Rogers gets grim.
New historical sex drama comes to Hulu.
Friday A/V Club: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is posting declassified footage of atomic tests on YouTube.
Today's religious freedom controversies got their start in the 19th century debate over outlawing polygamy.
Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they're the ones under attack.
The candidate who told an audience of cops that he'd abolish the New York Police Department
History shows a pattern of assimilation, not danger.
With sweeping "sex trafficking stings," the FBI returns to its roots as the nation's vice squad.
It's time for daylight savings time to go.
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