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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.… »

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A Most Valuable, A Most Sacred Right

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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
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Memory Holes for Slavery and the Confederacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale
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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
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Slavery and the Confederacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be… »

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States and Cities Saying “No” to the Feds

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

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  • Nullification
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The Great Divide–And Secession?

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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.… »

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Texas Secession?

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

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  • Secession
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What Was the Confederacy After All?

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

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“To the Size of States There Is a Limit”: Measurements for the Success of a State

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Secession

The “Hard Hand of War”

By Kirkpatrick Sale

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… »

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