July 2009 
Lincoln, the Antiwar Congressman(Comments Off)
July 1, 2009
The only time before his presidency when Abraham Lincoln held national office was a single term (1847-49) in the U.S. House of Representatives. During that time, while debating the Mexican-American War, Lincoln zealously defended the constitutional prerogative of Congress to declare war and enact legislation against a perceived usurpation of these powers by the executive branch.
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Surviving the Next Depression—July 2009
Thomas Fleming on how we might still live well, Tom Landess on the New Deal’s destruction of agrarianism, Wayne Allensworth on Russia’s past and America’s (possible) future, and Greg Kaza on the history of distributism and how it can help us. Plus, Justin Raimondo on the dismissal of charges in the recent AIPAC espionage case.