Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Oskar Chomicki
The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Courts, Election, History, Politics, Uncategorized
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Sheldon Richman
What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms. Significantly, the document declared, “We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain establishing independent states.”
The rest of myTGIF column is [...]
Filed under: History
Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
Am I the only one who has read that Pakistani president Zardari, referred to as “Mr. Ten Per Cent” when his wife Benazir was Prime Minister due to his demand for a cut in all government contracts, is now being referred to as “Mr. Twenty Per Cent?” Or that the only viable part of the Afghan [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, History
Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
Early last month I gave some short remarks on the foreign-policy panel at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Scholars Conference. Most of my comments springboarded off of a very interesting paper given by Hunt Tooley on “Empire, Oil, and the Reshaping of the Middle East After World War I.” We can talk frankly about the economic [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, History
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Leon Hadar
I’ve always been interested in future studies or futurology but couldn’t figure out how to land a job in that lucrative field and become your friendly Oracle. One the studies that ignited my interest in forecasting the future was The Coming War with Japan, authored by George Friedman, and published in 1991. After a long [...]
Filed under: Books, History, Uncategorized
Posted on March 4th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
A blast from the past (h/t LRC):
Filed under: Books, Culture, History
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
TAC associate publisher Jon Basil Utley at age 2 lost his father to the Soviet death camps. Jon’s mother, Freda, never knew for certain what happened after the state police took her husband, Arcadi Berdichevsky. The most she should could learn from a former U.S. ambassador to the USSR was that Arcadi had died in [...]
Filed under: History
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Dennis Dale
Our Attorney General is right. We are a nation of cowards, fearing an honest discussion of race. But, unless he’s breaking utterly with rigorously observed convention, he’s dead wrong about what that discussion would look like. A newly open conversation about race and public policy is the last thing an Eric Holder wants.
Filed under: History, Politics, liberties
