I Worked for Hodding Carter III at a Small-Town Mississippi Newspaper
He didn't pay much, we fought a lot, and he was one of the best bosses I ever had.
He didn't pay much, we fought a lot, and he was one of the best bosses I ever had.
The Case for Christian Nationalism advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."
The hard lesson that free markets are better than state control may have to be relearned.
The George Washington University historian argues that the group's paranoid mindset and obsessions are front and center in the modern GOP.
The authors of Mediocrity say it's well past time to end "factory schooling" and set kids free to learn.
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
"Christian libertarians" Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger challenged state power and ended up leading the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests.
The video game is a 100-year simulation of the Victorian era where the player has centralized control over the government of their chosen country.
The authors of The Individualists talk Rand, Friedman, Hayek, Rothbard, and the "struggle for the soul" of the libertarian movement.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's most controversial book has finally been fully translated into English.
The book's 12 thematic chapters are dense and rich—like flan, but good.
Books by the acclaimed mystery author have been edited, ostensibly to comport with modern sensibilities.
His most popular book, The Enormous Room, was recently reprinted for its 100th anniversary.
[UPDATE: I've added excerpts from a Slate interview with the school's Board Chair, who ended up commenting on the story after all; his view is that the firing stemmed only from the failure to alert parents to the upcoming material.]
Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.
Congress' end-of-year rush to fund the federal government has become the norm.
Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
Just consider the policies that the Founding Fathers embraced.
While the office was created with "modest authority and limited responsibilities," the modern president has increasingly unchecked power and authority.
War by Other Means tells the story of those conscientious objectors who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.
Guidance for judicial examination of legal history.
Fifty years ago, dozens of people gathered in Ossineke, Michigan, for one of the strangest funerals in American history
The first episode paints an enslaver, plantation master, and Royalist autocrat as a leading and even celebrated agent of emancipation.
This is what it looks like when a political party's branches start to go their own way.
Thanks to globalization, we plebes can pay just $6.49 for a whole Whopper meal fit for a 16th-century king.
In the early 20th century, the Klan's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism fueled its interest in education policy.
"Hamline subjected López Prater to the foregoing adverse actions because . . . she did not conform her conduct to the specific beliefs of a Muslim sect," the lawsuit states.
Justice Thomas' footprints are all over the Court's recently concluded term.
"If Hamline won't listen to free speech advocates or faculty across the country, they'll have to listen to their accreditor," said FIRE attorney Alex Morey, who filed the complaint.
The first FBI director wasn't all bad (or a cross-dresser). But he and the agency he created regularly flouted constitutional limits on power.
Friday A/V Club: That time Orson Welles tried to assassinate St. Nick
The U.S. and the Holocaust condemns anti-refugee policies of the World War II era.
Q&A with Jacob Grier, co-author of Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home.
Joe Biden just declassified another batch, but the government is still keeping some under wraps.
Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.
Kaytlin Bailey wants to decriminalize—and normalize—the world's oldest profession.
Pauline Sabin was a freedom-loving heroine.
While we often spend Thanksgiving remembering a different set of Puritan settlers, the religious, freedom-loving Roger Williams is an apt hero for the more liberty-minded.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The Burning Down the House author says the shift from Hayek's classical liberalism to Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism is a moral and practical disaster.
Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice.
Professors Miller and Tucker miss the mark, while Saul Cornell disdains accuracy
Mendel had a history of run-ins with the state.
In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.
A new petition seeks a posthumous pardon for Callie House.