States and Cities Saying “No” to the Feds
What was amazing about watching two dozen states and several hundred cities defy Donald Trump’s decision to take the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement was that so little was made of it. It… »
The Great Divide–And Secession?
Of all the phenomena the 2016 election year has demonstrated, none is greater than the proof that this nation is deeply and probably irretrievably split into two political camps with very, very little in common.… »
Texas Secession?
It may not get anywhere at all, but there are a number of people in Texas trying to get the official state Republican Party to debate the issue of secession at the party convention on… »
What Was the Confederacy After All?
This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of the Confederacy, whether to honor them or get rid of the lot, not much attention has been paid to what… »
“To the Size of States There Is a Limit”: Measurements for the Success of a State
This essay was first published in Don Livingston, ed., Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century. Yes, Aristotle declared there to be a limit to the size of states: ” a limit, as there… »
The “Hard Hand of War”
The kind of military onslaught that Union Gen. William Sherman unleashed on the South, beginning with his infamous conquest of Atlanta and subsequent “March to the Sea,” followed by his capture of Savannah 150 years… »
Caveat, America, Emptor
Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for, republicanism than Thomas Jefferson. It was the common belief that a true republic had to be of a fairly limited… »
Violating the Lieber Code: The March From the Sea
On April 24, 1863—-just three months after the cruel and retaliatory Emancipation Proclamation–Lincoln issued an order drafted by Columbia University law professor Francis Lieber that codified the generally accepted universal standards of warfare, particularly as… »
