http://www.americanmanifesto.org An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism en-us Copyright 2011 Christopher Chantrill 30 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:48 +0000 http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo447_the_greater_separation_of_powers.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo447_the_greater_separation_of_powers.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:18:08 +0000 Christopher Chantrill In the Federalist Papers 47, James Madison quotes the famous dictum of Montesquieu: ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo446_business_and_the_web_of_trust.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo446_business_and_the_web_of_trust.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:08:13 +0000 Christopher Chantrill I recently bought at my local supermarket some Pinata apples. Even though I'd never heard of them before I bought a couple for, as I told the checkout clerk, I trust Safeway. The clerk looked ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo444_the_bonds_of_faith.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo444_the_bonds_of_faith.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:01:09 +0000 Christopher Chantrill In our modern age we look back with a certain disdain upon the ways of the ancestors. We regard their ways as ignorant and their faith as superstition. This is nothing new. Plato ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo449_government_and_the_technology_of_power.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo449_government_and_the_technology_of_power.html Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill If you scratch a social reformer, you will likely discover a plan for more government. For the easiest way to imagine the future is one miraculously converted to your own vision: happy people ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo448_the_modern_conundrum.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo448_the_modern_conundrum.html Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill The modern state has enormous power. It possesses armed forces and police powers beyond the imaginings of kings and emperors. It taxes and spends a share of social production unimaginable a ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo445_the_crisis_of_the_administrative_state.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo445_the_crisis_of_the_administrative_state.html Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill It wasn't supposed to be like this. Huge government debt and financial instability were supposed to be problems confined to South American dictatorships. Idleness was a problem of unregulated ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo430_why_we_fight.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo430_why_we_fight.html Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:43:53 +0000 Christopher Chantrill November 2, 2010 will go down as the biggest repudiation of liberalism in our lifetime. As many as 80 Democrats may go down to defeat in the House of Representatives. But for what? None ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo417_a_new_manifesto.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo417_a_new_manifesto.html Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:45:46 +0000 Christopher Chantrill A spectre is haunted the liberal elite -- the spectre of conservatism. All the powers of the liberal establishment have entered into a secular alliance to exorcise this spectre: liberal left and ... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/separation-of-secular-church-and-state.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/separation-of-secular-church-and-state.html Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill SOMETIMES I have to agree with liberals. The writers of the US Constitution were living in ano... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/capitalism-is-not-system.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/capitalism-is-not-system.html Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill A great irony of our modern era is that at exactly the same time that the Cartesian-Newtonian world... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-theory-of-willful-blindness.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-theory-of-willful-blindness.html Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill A while back I took a look at "Marx's Five Big Mistakes," five big things that Karl Marx got wrong.... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-age-of-scrounger.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-age-of-scrounger.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chantrill IF you are a conservative or Republican, chances are that you are a member in good standing of the ...