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Who Is King In America? It Is Not Who Most Would Think
American Minute with Bill Federer
And who is responsible if things go wrong?
Who is the KING in America?
Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary defined "KING" as:
"KING, n....
Mortimer Adler: On Anarchy
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER
What most people have in mind when they use the word "anarchist" is the image of a bomb-throwing revolutionist. They do...
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
American Minute with Bill Federer
On April 16, 1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died.
After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote Democracy...
Democrazy: Venezuala Needs a Military Coup
BY SELWYN DUKE
With Venezuela spinning out of control, it’s said that U.S. officials fear a military coup. We ought to ask “Why?”
Democracy on the...
Democracies open the door to tyranny
American Minute with Bill Federer
How Tyrants Arise - a fascinating, in-depth explanation by Plato.
Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of...
Is the majority ALWAYS right?
Thomas Jefferson Leadership
... where two measures are equally right, it is a duty to the people to adopt that one which is most agreeable...
Gustave Le Bon—The Crowd
Commentary
In 1895, French physicist Gustave Le Bon publishes a treatise on mob behavior.
Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to...
The Sphinx
Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II, by Nicholas Wapshott
BOOK REVIEW BY CARL L. BANKSTON III
The complicated strategic struggle...
A Collectivist Curvature of the Mind
Individual Liberty In The Crucible Of History, Part 4
THE AMERICANIST: CLARENCE CARSON ESSAYS
Source: The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, August 01, 1962
Any capable observer should...
Fisher Ames: Dangers of American Liberty—Part III
American Debate
Federalist Fisher Ames sends a draft treatise to a friend for review, in which he addresses the dangers he sees to the liberty...
Mark Twain: As Regards Patriotism
Commentary
Mark Twain comments on Patriotism.
… men can be trained to manufacture their own Patriotism. They can be trained to labor it out in their...
Nation building in one step? Fuggedaboudit!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
A full measure of liberty is not now perhaps to be expected by your nation, nor am I confident they are prepared...
Korean War halted July 27, 1953
American Minute with Bill Federer
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE" is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Korean War started JUNE 25,...
Character and society in America – how it should be
American Minute with Bill Federer
On APRIL APRIL 16, 1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died.
After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote...
Ames: Dangers of American Liberty – Part II
American Debate
Federalist Fisher Ames sends a draft treatise to a friend for review, in which he addresses the dangers he sees to the liberty...
Is Democracy Truly The Voice of God?
The whole people have never been unbiased by faction, nor undeluded by the tricks of designing men. And under normal circumstances they never will be... Farrell
Fisher Ames: Dangers of American Liberty—Part I
American Debate
Federalist Fisher Ames sends a draft treatise to a friend for review, in which he addresses the dangers he sees to the liberty...
The Prospect for Freedom: Can the U.S. Sustain Its Experiment in Self-Government?
LIBERTY LETTERS
OS GUINNESS, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Abstract
In establishing a free republic, the Founders had to tackle three major tasks. The first task was winning freedom—the objective...
Democracy In America: Introduction – Alexis de Tocqueville
AMERICANIST HISTORY & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831
Volume 1, AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
AMONG the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay...
The Pilgrims – by George Bancroft
AMERICANIST HISTORY
History of the United States, Vol. I, Ch. 12, by George Bancroft
The Pilgrims
Our narrative leads us to the manor-house of Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire,...