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:…
Category: The American System
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…
How to Save a Republic Part One: Hamilton’s Genius
By Matthew Ehret Today’s world calls out desperately for a systemic change. This means not only a change in thinking about diplomacy, the superiority of win-win cooperation over “might makes right”, but it also means a change in thinking about value itself. Everyone agrees that money is useful and few people would say that they…
Kennedy and the New Frontier
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture delivered as a sequel to last week’s Franklin Roosevelt’s Republican Grand Design, historian Pascal Chevrier introduces the figure of John F. Kennedy from several valuable frames of reference: His family traditions, his experience in the military during WW2, the geopolitical world in which he lived, his anti-imperial vision and…
The Difference Between William McKinley’s American System School of Protective Tariffs and Today
Part III of Make Whose America Great Again? series By Cynthia Chung “Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing commodities with which to trade, with necessarily diminished return to the…