How this screwy IRS policy kickstarted the American health care crisis
As a believer in small government, I usually favor anything that reduces taxes. But this tax break has wreaked havoc on American health care.
Learn More...Tag Archive: history
-
-
Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Sarah Burns
Did you miss our recent Reddit AMA with Professor Sarah Burns of RIT’s political science department? You can find the whole conversation here, or check out some of the highlights below. Dr. Burns is a regular contributor to the Learn Liberty Blog, and starred in our series on America’s Founding. Adama82 Hi, thanks for […]
Learn More... -
Reddit AMA with Professor Sarah Burns, scholar of the American founding
Sarah Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research examines the intersection of political liberalization and American constitutional development with an eye toward policy implications for democratization across the globe. Professor Burns was featured in Learn Liberty’s America’s Founding series. She has also written on American history (1), American foreign policy (2,3), elections (4,5), […]
Learn More... -
Elinor Ostrom, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and learning to see the women who have shaped the world
Well-behaved women seldom make history, but they should.
Learn More... -
6 women who should be on the $20 bill
We reached out to Learn Liberty professors for suggestions on great women whose achievements should earn them a place on US currency.
Learn More... -
The Filibuster: A Primer
Most legal scholars agree that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has the necessary experience, expertise, and temperament to be confirmed as Justice Scalia’s replacement. But suppose the Democrats decide to filibuster the nomination and Republicans can’t get the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster? If that happens, you can expect the Republicans to “go […]
Learn More... -
Anne Hutchinson: The spirit of religious liberty
Opinions of Anne Hutchinson have, shall we say, covered the waterfront. In his masterful tome, Conceived in Liberty, 20th-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard cast her as a staunch individualist and the greatest threat to the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” John Winthrop, the 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 12th governor of the Massachusetts […]
Learn More... -
Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes
Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself. In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an accomplished poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and historian — though much of what she […]
Learn More... -
History, progress, and the fate of gay marriage
The future belongs to everyone, and the arc of the universe bends nowhere in particular.
Learn More... -
Mary Wollstonecraft: Libertarian Feminist
Almost two centuries before the women’s lib movement and a full century before the suffragettes, not all women were quiet subordinates to men. In this 1996 essay, historian Jim Powell provides us with an illuminating account of the brilliant Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century author and philosopher who never minced her words in defense of equal […]
Learn More... -
How urban planners broke Brooklyn
Zoning and landmark laws have frozen much of New York into a life-size historical diorama: neighborhoods frozen in time, where the only thing that goes up is the rent.
Learn More... -
Top 5 myths about Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, declaring the slaves of the rebellious southern states “forever free,” is probably the most important event of his presidency or even his life. But most people — including a few professional historians — get the Proclamation wrong.
Learn More...