Historian Brion McClanahan joins me to discuss an article on secession, particularly on the nineteenth-century southern secession, that makes the rounds every once in a while in fashionable libertarian circles. Libertarians can’t support secession across the board, the author says, because some seceding states intend great evil once seceded. He further says there’s no right of secession of an American state anyway. Are these statements sound? That’s what we discuss today.
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Article Discussed
“Why “Libertarian” Defenses of the Confederacy and “States’ Rights” are Incoherent,” by Jonathan Blanks
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