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Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Too Early To Tell

Posted by Kevin R. C. Gutzman on December 17, 2008

In the latest issue of National Review, one finds a laudatory review of a new doorstop biography of Franklin Roosevelt. Among other things, the author of this review credits Roosevelt with reducing the unemployment rate between his first inauguration in 1933 and his reelection in 1936.  On the Conservativenet e-mail list for conservative and libertarian scholars recently, editor Richard Jensen offered … [Read More]

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Farewell to the Gipper

Posted by Kevin R. C. Gutzman on September 11, 2008
 Little Gipper

Today’s Republican Party is no longer the conservative party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It has morphed significantly in regard to the two main questions of concern to me: foreign policy and constitutional philosophy. In the area of foreign policy, Reagan vindicated Goldwater’s lonely stand in the early-1960s Senate with such fellow “extremists” as John Tower and Strom Thurmond on … [Read More]

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Joe Biden’s Constitution

Posted by Kevin R. C. Gutzman on August 27, 2008
Biden

As Tom Woods and I demonstrate in our new book, Who Killed the Constitution?  The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush, there is a bipartisan consensus in all three branches of the federal government that the U.S. Government can do whatever it wants. Joe Biden is one of the chief proponents of this view. It … [Read More]

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