Dave Wang is Manager of Hollis Library and Adjunct Professor of St. Johns University– Article originally published on Reset DOC (Dialogue of Civilizations) Prof. Wang has published over twenty groundbreaking articles on the topic of Chinese influences on the founding fathers of America. You can find more of his incredible work athttps://foundingfathersandchina.blogspot.com Scholarship on the study…
Category: The American System
How to Save a Republic Part Three: In Defense of Patriotism
By Matthew Ehret “Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.” – Marquis St. Evrémonde (from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities) A major cultural fight has broken out in the USA…
V.I. Vernadsky and the American System in Russia
As the dust settled on the American Civil war in 1865, Russia took pride in the fact that this Eurasian nation turned the tide in favor of Lincoln’s cause of preserving the union and abolishing the institution of slavery. Czar Alexander II was also known as “The Great Liberator” for liberating the serfs in 1861…
The American World Outlook, and the Anglo American Shroud (Anton Chaitkin Lectures)
On Sunday October 26 , The Rising Tide Foundation hosted renowned historian Anton Chaitkin who delivered a lecture on the clash between two opposing traditions representing two very different concepts of human nature and the universe. Subscribe to Anton’s substack here: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/ Purchase Anton’s Who We Are Vol 1 here: https://www.amazon.com/Who-We-Are-Ame… and vol 2 here:…
Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution and the Evolution of the American Republic
In this lecture, historian and author Gerald Therrien introduces the turbulent world of 1787-1804 which shaped (and was in turn shaped by) the Haitian Revolution establishing the world’s second republic. This was a world shaped by battles within America itself between opposing factions of Americans who read the newly established Constitution from diametrically opposing worldviews….
A Pax Americana or A Republic If You Can Keep It?
By Cynthia Chung “Fortune thus blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to resist her power.” – Livy It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire. That one of the most notorious periods…
Has the ‘American System’ Been Revived at Davos… or is a Keynesian Trojan Horse Being Rolled out?
By Matthew Ehret This week, many people (myself included) were shocked to hear that a speech took place at Davos, featuring a Sorbonne-trained Mormon US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer outlining the history of the American System of Political Economy from 1776 to the present. Greer’s speech was titled ‘From Hamilton to Today: Trade and U.S. Economic…
When Traitors Are Celebrated as Heroes: An Account of the True ‘American System’ History & Why You are Being Lied to Today
By Cynthia Chung As many of you are aware, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer made a rather shocking speech last week at Davos, Switzerland (the 56th World Economic Forum). His speech was titled ‘From Hamilton to Today: Trade and U.S. Economic Strategy’ which credited Alexander Hamilton as the origin of the ‘American System’ school of economics. With an…
The Difference Between William McKinley’s American System School of Protective Tariffs and Today (Part II)
By Cynthia Chung “Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be…
How to Save a Republic Part Two: Lincoln and the Greenbacks
By Matthew Ehret In my last paper I introduced the figure of Alexander Hamilton (first Treasury Secretary and founder of the American System of political economy). I reviewed how America was saved from an early dismemberment in the early years of chaos after 1783’s Peace of Paris which finally ended the war with Britain but left…