Stone Washington, a Clemson student, opines in The College Fix about the minor to-do related to some students and faculty petitioning to remove Calhoun’s name from Clemson’s honors college. When I hear the name Calhoun,…
According to local news stories, more than 200 students and Clemson alumni have petitioned to have Calhoun’s name removed from the Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University. With an enrollment of over 23,000 students and…
Briain now faces an existential crisis greater than any she has faced since 1940. In fact, it is not hyperbole to state that the entire future of Europe rests on what occurs over the next two…
The Calhoun Institute was formed and created, as a non-profit corporation in South Carolina dedicated to the purpose of enhancing scholarship, education and critical thinking related to matters of first principles. Our secondary purpose is…
The notion of limiting civil asset forfeiture is good and noble. In the United States, we have essentially no independent mechanism by which the people might limit the scope and breadth of police actions. The law…
Over time a man, if he is perceptive, comes to certain conclusions. The most startling is that the greatest truths were spoken to him throughout his life by ordinary men, simple preachers, old men sitting…
America is more divided culturally and politically than at any time since the 1850’s. Real and authentic dialogue does not occur and violence and the threat of violence increase daily. We are on a precarious…
The Annotated Secessionist Papers, Second Edition is now available on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle. Description: A collection of essays, articles and papers, in the tradition of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, that discuss secession…
Dismantling the Unitary Electoral System? Uncooperative Federalism in State and Local Elections Michael T. Morley, Barry University School of Law, March 5, 2016, 110 Northwestern University Law Review Online ___ (2016 Forthcoming) Abstract: Most Americans assume that we…
The Classical Limits to Police Power: Adam Smith and the Economic Foundations of the Slaughterhouse Dissents Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa. March 5, 2016, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2742517 Abstract: The paper examines the influence of classical economics on an important episode…
