History--Revisionism continued
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Textbook accounts of the history of Western political theory generally begin with an unstated presupposition: man is saved by politics. This is an application of theology: man is saved by law. This view is wrong.... keep reading
Three letters -- F, D, and R -- prove that America is a statist bureaucracy and will remain so during my lifetime. You had better make plans accordingly.... keep reading
Universities are the most solidly politically liberal of all institutions in the United States. They have a government-licensed oligopoly. How did they get this? There is no study of this grant of privilege.... keep reading
From the earliest colonial constitution -- Connecticut's (1639) -- to the latest Supreme Court decision, there has been change. We need a textbook that surveys this change in terms of fundamental themes of law and liberty.... keep reading
When people speak of the Enlightenment, they rarely understand that there were two wings. These were agreed on some issues and went to war -- literally (1793) -- on other issues. Western thought has been divided ever since 1750 or thereabouts.... keep reading
Natural law theory was developed by Stoic philosophers after the Roman Empire replaced Alexander's empire. It was basic to Western social thought until Darwin's theory undermined faith in nature as normative. We need a history of this development.... keep reading
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