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Decentralization

Small is Still Beautiful

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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.… »

  • Book Review
  • Decentralization
  • Featured
  • Fritz Schumacher
  • Joseph Pearce
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Secession

Is Political Separation in Our Future?

By Boyd Cathey

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… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Decentralization
  • Nationalism
  • Political Correctness
  • Secession

Home Free

By Paul H. Yarbrough

One of my favorite authors, James Everett Kibler, has the consummate perception of localism; the single thing that I believe even Yankees have, though many act as if they don’t understand its basic concept. Fact… »

  • Decentralization
  • James Kibler
  • Paul Yarbrough

Leopold Kohr: Prophet of a Coming Decentralization?

By Steven Yates

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… »

  • Decentralization
  • Nullification
  • Secession
  • Steven Yates

John C. Calhoun: Nullification, Secession, Constitution

By Marco Bassani

“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… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Decentralization
  • Federalism
  • Marco Bassani
  • Nulliication
  • Secession
  • United States Constitution

David Hume, Republicanism, and the Human Scale of Political Order

By Donald Livingston

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… »

  • David Hume
  • Decentralization
  • Don Livingston
  • Federalism
  • Republicanism
  • Secession

Caveat, America, Emptor

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

  • Decentralization
  • Featured
  • John Taylor
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Republicanism
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson

State Sovereignty and Centralism in 19th-Century Argentina

By Joseph R. Stromberg

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… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Argentina
  • Decentralization
  • Federalism
  • José Carlos Chiaramonte
  • Joseph R. Stromberg
  • United States Constitution

Is America Too Big? Part I

By Donald Livingston
  • Decentralization
  • Don Livingston
  • Federalism
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Secession
  • Video
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Book Review
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Clyde Wilson
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