American History

The counter‐​majoritarian and anti‐​democratic nature of the federal court system was originally intended to act as a safeguard for the rights of minority groups.

Gaston envisioned a world in which black Americans were sovereign, morally free, and equal.

Richard Nixon was one of the most problematic and controversial leaders in U.S. history.

A libertarian future would unleash markets to provide high quality education in a variety of styles to meet parent’s needs—and at prices within the reach of everyone.

Governments gather far too much information about us, and in dangerously intrusive ways. But intelligence services can be more liberty and privacy respecting.

An alternative history of the United States if we had significantly liberalized immigration policies.

How can decentralized, digital currencies change the way we go about our economic lives?

As the debate around guns becomes increasingly divisive, it is important to know the original purpose of the Second Amendment.

The Anti‐​Federalists had a strong distrust of government power. A national government with too much power was, as far as they were concerned, a pathway to government oppression.

Donald Trump is a symptom and not the cause of the decline of the Republican Party.

The 1619 Project and the debate it spurred have both been fraught with conceptual and historical misunderstandings about the relationship between slavery and free markets.

Martin Van Buren could have warned us that Donald Trump is what you get when a modern political party stops functioning like one.

War powers practice in the early republic suggests that the president’s power of “self‐​defense” was far narrower than Trump’s defenders imagine.

To discover everything wrong with the Gipper, we have to challenge myths from all sides.

When the American revolutionaries declared their independence, it was founded on a solid thousand years of English history.