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  • Concentration Camps Reveal the Nature of the Modern State

    Concentration Camps Reveal the Nature of the Modern State0

    In the history of concentration camps, there is one thing that everyone knows: they were invented by the British. The idea of isolating unwanted population groups in purpose-built camps was implemented in South Africa in the context of the Anglo-Boer War, with horrific consequences for the Boer population. Although it would be left to the

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  • Con Games and Propaganda in the ‘Information Age’

    Con Games and Propaganda in the ‘Information Age’5

    For the average individual, life today is lived in a gulf between statistical reality and the never-never land of conjecture. Just how wide is this gulf of discrepancies? Theodore Roosevelt Malloch answers that question in an article for American Greatness, citing a recent YouGov poll that asked Americans to estimate the numbers in various subgroups

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  • Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times

    Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times1

    Feeling depressed by the state of the nation? Sucked under by the daily torrent of negative news? Powerless in the grip of forces greater than yourself? Join the crowd. In October 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released data showing that 70 percent of adults don’t believe their government cares about their well-being and that

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn’t Have Them?

    Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn’t Have Them?0

    • October 8, 2018

    We should always be leery of laws passed “for our own good,” as if the state knows better. The history of compulsory schooling statutes is rife with paternalism, triggered by anti-immigrant sentiments in the mid-nineteenth century and fueled by a desire to shape people into a standard mold. History books detailing the “common school movement”

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws Under Scrutiny in Michigan Following Deadly Tragedy

    Compulsory Schooling Laws Under Scrutiny in Michigan Following Deadly Tragedy0

    In the wake of the devastating school shooting in Oxford, Michigan this week that claimed the lives of four teenagers and injured seven others, state board of education member Tom McMillin called for an end to Michigan’s compulsory schooling laws. “Repeal compulsory schooling laws,” McMillin announced in a Facebook post on Thursday. “State needs to

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go

    Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go0

    When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to school under a legal threat of force. Today, that threat remains stronger than ever. Prior to that law, and those that followed in all other US states over the subsequent decades, cities and towns were

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