The Senate offers a Supreme Court nominations table, which reveals that throughout most of the history of the United States justices were nominated and confirmed…
Posts published in “History”
Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. It won’t happen, but it should. Everything Michael Cohen said in court, and much of what his lawyer…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed to the Supreme Court 96-to-3 in August of 1993 (New York Times, 1993: Senate vote 96-3, easily affirms Ginsburg as…
The name of this blog is Almost Classical because I find myself more pragmatic than ideologically pure. But, what is a classical liberal if the label is…
Do not vote for Republicans nationally until they openly challenge Donald Trump. Until larger numbers call for and endorse a primary challenge to Trump, and…
Libertarian philosophies and economic theories have not had much influence in the United States for nearly a century. Only in opposition to Democrats and Progressives…
If liberals, progressives, and even Marxists are most common in history and political science departments within universities, then it goes to reason that these fields…
Who in the world is President Donald Trump listening to on economic policy matters? I cannot be any well-read economists, economic historians, or similarly educated…
Duke University historian Nancy MacLean is currently a trendy historian who spent 2017 touring and promoting her book Democracy in Chains. The book has some…
In 2016 I posted about the value of reading Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, and Michael Otsuka. These left-libertarian thinkers remain influential in my life. Online…