Posts by Jonathan Bean
Jonathan Bean is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, and editor of the Independent book, Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader.
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Frederick Douglass: Lion of Individualist Liberalism
Tax Reform Is a Scam: Tell Us What We Really Pay!
50 Years Ago Today: The Detroit Riot and the Decline of Civil Rights Liberalism (III)
50 Years Ago Today: The Detroit Riot and the Decline of Civil Rights Liberalism (II)
50 Years Ago Today: The Detroit Riot and the Decline of Civil Rights Liberalism (I)
Big Government, Racial Violence, and the Police
Say No to Reparations: Remembering Slavery, Forgetting the Classical-Liberal Values that Abolished It
Nonvoter Manifesto: Don’t Vote!
What Is Consent? Edison’s Light Bulb
Serpent in the Supreme Court: The Folly of “Strict Scrutiny,” from Japanese Internment to Affirmative Action
Rosa Parks Day: The Triumph of Colorblindness and Capitalism
Small Business Suffers: The Riots, Past and Present
Classifying America: Government’s Power to Define Is the Power to Discriminate
50 Years of Mischief: The Triumph and Trashing of the Civil Rights Act
Don’t Know Much About History: Colleges Teach U.S. History with Politics Left Out (Is that Good or Bad?)
XX-: Safe-Porn Dreaming USA
The Temptation of Bernanke: How Historical Memory Feeds Fed Power
“Pull Over Sir, I Must Fine You for Smoking in Your Car”
Why I Voted “No” to a Strike
Libertarian Activism: “We Demand Freedom: Popular Movements for Liberty in U.S. History”
Books That Make Us Human: My Top Ten List
It’s Housing, Stupid! Parallels Between the 1920s and the 2000s
Media Blackout of Ron Paul: Jon Stewart asks “How did Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?”
Obama and Hoover: Two “Smart” (Stupid) Presidents
Liberty on Film: Hayek and Others

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