Can John C. Calhoun Save America?
In an essay titled “A Strategy for the Right,” the late economist and libertarian scholar Professor Murray N. Rothbard called John C. Calhoun’s Disquisition on Government “one of the most brilliant essays on political philosophy ever written.” Published in 1850, the year of his death, Calhoun’s Disquisition warned — and explained — how the American political system could devolve into tyranny, and how to stop that from happening. Americans are now living under the tyranny that Calhoun feared, proving once again the prescience and brilliance of his Disquisition.
Calhoun’s 173-year-old treatise is not just a diagnosis of how we got here, but a roadmap for escaping from this tyranny and being rid of the “woke” totalitarian Marxists among us who are so hell-bent on destroying America.
Who Was John C. Calhoun?
John C. Calhoun was born into a family of Scots-Irish immigrants in the South Carolina upcountry in 1782. He had two uncles who were killed by British soldiers during the Revolution, and his father, Patrick, was a frontier scout. His early education included intimate knowledge of the American Revolution from his family history as well as his studies. He was mostly homeschooled, which prepared him to enter Yale University, where he was the 1804 class valedictorian. His mentor was Yale university president Timothy Dwight, a renowned expert on Lockean political philosophy.
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