Small is Still Beautiful
A review of Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered (ISI Books, 2006) by Joseph Pearce. There’s not too much that’s actually wrong about this book, other than it proves itself totally unnecessary.… »
Is Political Separation in Our Future?
In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included references to an essay I had published at THE UNZ REVIEW (July 26), and then which was picked up nationally… »
Leopold Kohr: Prophet of a Coming Decentralization?
The time is ripe for a rediscovery of Leopold Kohr. Or perhaps better: the time is ripe for the discovery of Leopold Kohr, since few have any idea who he was. A select group of… »
John C. Calhoun: Nullification, Secession, Constitution
“The confederation has been formed by the free will of the states. […] If today one of these very states wanted to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be quite difficult to prove… »
David Hume, Republicanism, and the Human Scale of Political Order
Aristotle taught that “To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements, for none of these things retain their natural power when they are too large… »
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… »
State Sovereignty and Centralism in 19th-Century Argentina
Introduction: Centers and Peripheries A look at the early history of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata — a political structure ancestral (partly) to the modern-day Argentine nation-state — reveals many interesting… »
