James Ledbetter

James Ledbetter is the chief content officer of Clarim Media and the author, most recently, of One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries.

Elizabeth Holmes

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care

What might have happened if taxpayers—rather than investors—had directly funded Theranos’s blood-prick research?

Dec 22, 2021 / James Ledbetter

Judy Shelton

If You Think Amy Coney Barrett Is Extreme, Meet Judy Shelton If You Think Amy Coney Barrett Is Extreme, Meet Judy Shelton

Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve has gotten a lot less publicity. But her desire to return the US to the gold standard and eliminate federal deposit insurance could destroy t...

Sep 29, 2020 / James Ledbetter

Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’

Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’ Dwight Eisenhower & ‘The Nation’

The Nation was central to Eisenhower's understanding of the military-industrial complex.

Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

Ink-Stained Marx Ink-Stained Marx

A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.

Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade

The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

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