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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005

"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Trump and Nearly Everyone Else Are Wrong about the Civil War

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Memo to just about everyone: secession does not equal war. The Lower South of the United States seceded over slavery, but Lincoln's war ...

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Rand Paul, Jack Hunter, and All That

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I cringe every time libertarianism is associated with the Confederate States of America. Read Jeff Hummel's Emancipating Slaves, Enslavi...

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Freeman, April 2011

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The Freeman marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War with articles by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Burton Folsom, Bradle...

Friday, July 09, 2010

TGIF: Can America Afford an Empire?

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The fiscal question is whether, in the face of the huge national debt and multiyear trillion-dollar budget deficits, we can afford a “defens...

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Lincoln

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My friend Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, a Civil War scholar as well as an economist and economic historian, has written a spot-on op-ed about Abra...

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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