John Stuart Mill on Slavery and the American Civil War by Richard M. Ebeling January 21, 2020 One of the most heated and controversial issues today concerns the place of slavery in the history of the United States, and attitudes toward the institution of human bondage in the Western world in general. Another theme in modern political debate is the nature and role of classical liberalism as a force for human freedom and dignity or as a ...
The Lies and Hypocrisy of the Civil War by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2018 More than 150 years after the Civil War, the nation is engulfed in controversy over statues of people who fought for the Confederacy. Many people want the statues taken down. The statues, they say, depict men who were slaveowners, slavery proponents, and traitors. Those who want the statues to stay in place are said to be racists. The feelings ...
The Libertarian Angle: Racism and Civil War Statues by Future of Freedom Foundation August 23, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent controversy over civil war statues and the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Go to the podcast.
Forgotten Civil War Atrocities Bred More Carnage by James Bovard January 1, 2015 George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” The same moral myopia has carried over to most Americans’ understanding of the Civil War. While popular historians have recently canonized the war as a practically holy ...
A Libertarian Historian’s Masterpiece on the Civil War by Anthony Gregory November 1, 2014 Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, 2nd ed. by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel (Open Court 2013), 421 pages. Not many volumes advance a radically revisionist thesis while maintaining proper respect for the mainstream historical literature. To do so with a topic as exhaustively explored as the American Civil War warrants special recognition. Jeff ...
