The Not-So-Current Year: 2018 In Review
Though the specific demarcation of the passage from one year into another is a rather arbitrary social construct, it does provide a useful annual period for self-examination and remembrance. Now that...
View ArticleWhat’s In A Name?
When I launched Zeroth Position in January 2016, I wrote an article explaining the name of the site. What I have not done until now is to write an article explaining the pen name I use here. The...
View ArticleA Libertarian Reactionary View of Tariffs, Part I
One of the most important aspects of governance is trade policy, for it is part of both domestic and foreign policy. Without a proper understanding of the tools available to a sovereign, it is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention...
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates is a book about the formation of the United States government and the arguments against its foundational document by Ralph Ketcham....
View ArticleBook Review: Nemesis
Nemesis: The Jouvenelian Versus the Liberal Model of Human Orders is a book about Bertrand de Jouvenel’s model of political power and its further development by C.A. Bond. The book endeavors to show...
View ArticleBook Review: The Problem of Democracy
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality is a dual biography of John Adams (1735–1826) and John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) (hereafter JQA, as in the book and many...
View ArticleThe Next Hero of the Soviet Union
On December 18, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on the charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress by votes of 230–197–1 and 229–198–1,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: The Road Not Taken
The War in Afghanistan will soon become the longest military engagement in US history (the US Marines occupied Haiti 1915–34), and even though the administration of President Donald Trump recently...
View ArticleColonize Your Bookshelf, Part III
<<<Part II Part IV>>> In Part II of this series, we looked at Maistre’s “Generative...
View ArticleColonize Your Bookshelf, Part IV
<<<Part III Part V>>> In Part III of this series, we looked at the Nazi regime in...
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