The Maryland Corner: “Redeeming Roger Taney”

(from the forthcoming issue of The Terrapin Times, the first installment of our new feature, dedicated to important political figures, past and present, on the Right from Maryland, tentatively called The Maryland Corner)

Americans have a way of spinning history to bolster our national mythology. JFK’s foreign policy was nightmarish — to speak nothing of [...]

“Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush”

Yep, it’s already being said! I’m not, yet, convinced that I agree — throughout the campaign, I remained confident that McCain (even if, in the words of Scott McConnell, “Wilsonian bellicosity has visceral appeal for him”) and Obama, both, marked improvement from the six years of disastrous governance under the right branch of the War [...]

The Ron Paul Interview

On Monday morning, 13 October, I spoke with Congressman Ron Paul for about eighteen minutes. Find hereunder the edited transcript of that conversation, which I intend to publish in the forthcoming late-October pre-election issue of The Terrapin Times. 

NPO: I want this paper not just to offer commentary, but to have an intellectual tone to it, [...]

More on Röpke: Foreseeing the Wal*Mart-welfare state

We can see similar contentions in Belloc, and I’m sure that, somewhere, Hayek provides an argument of such nature in The Road to Serfdorm (on my bookshelf, but, I, shamefully, admit, unread). Röpke is spot-on:
[T]he welfare state itself takes care of a sort of comfortable stall-feeding of the domesticated masses[.] Is this not bound to [...]