America and the Art of the Possible and Philanthropy
"America and the Art of the Possible" broadly sketches how American elites have prospered while the middle class has stagnated during the past half century—calling into serious question what at…
New Deal
Liberal Commentator Discovers One Weird Trick to Progressive Utopia
Many Democrats are disappointed that President Joe Biden’s narrow election and the narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate have not yield liberal policy victories like those of Presidents…
Big Labor’s Golden State: A Tale of Two Cities
Summary: With over 10 percent of the nation’s population and an economy larger than that of France, California has loomed large in the nation’s politics and economy since the mid-20th…
Big Labor’s Golden State: Rise of Industrial California
Labor relations nationwide were transformed by the New Deal, especially the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) in 1935. The law abolished the strong form of the…
Big Labor’s Golden State: California’s Union Labor Machine
While private-sector unions remain powerful in California, the true center of labor organizing and government growth is its government-sector unions. Surprisingly perhaps given the vast growth in their power since…
Big Labor’s Golden State: Ballot Power
No discussion of California politics and policy can omit its extensive use of the ballot measure, and no discussion of California labor unions can omit their positions as among the…
The Politically Incorrect Guide
Each episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, starring Tom Woods and Michael Malice, covers undiscussed facts and stories about history, culture, and social movements that were purged from today’s mainstream…
Far-Left Activists Disinter FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps . . . for Global Warming?
At a time when the Left is reclassifying almost everything as “infrastructure” it should come as no surprise that someone would recall President Franklin Roosevelt’s public work relief program, the…
Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Aid Unions
This week, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a challenge by agricultural producers in California against a regulation under the state’s agricultural unionization law that compelled producers…
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
In the second episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods and Michael Malice demolish widespread myths about the Great Depression and the New Deal. Tom and Michael explain how…