Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986 by James Rosen Regnery Publishing, 2023 496 pages James Rosen, who has written biographies of John Mitchell and Dick Cheney, and was for many years a reporter for Fox News, has found an ideal biographical subject in Antonin Scalia,, who served for thirty years on the Supreme Court. The volume under review, the
The regime has increasingly been consumed with paranoia over threats to itself—propagandistically termed “threats to democracy”—while real crime against private citizens is clearly not a priority at all. Original Article: “ The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People
In a free society, political crimes like treason and “seditious libel” are few and far between. Under despotic regimes, on the other hand, political crimes multiply. Original Article: “ Why Governments Love Political “Crimes” Like Treason and
[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty , volume 1, chapter 6, “The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves”. An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] Until the 1670s, the bulk of forced labor in Virginia was indentured service (largely white, but some Negro); Negro slavery
[Originally from Joseph R. Peden and Fred R. Glahe, eds., The American Family and the State (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1986).] While the “Progressive Era” used to be narrowly designated as the period 1900–1914, historians now realize that the period is really much broader, stretching from the latter decades of the nineteenth
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