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Woodrow Wilson or Franklin D. Roosevelt: which president was worse for free speech? In August, FIRE posted a viral X thread, arguing that Woodrow Wilson may be America's worst-ever president for free speech. Despite the growing recognition of Wilson's censorship, there was a professor who wrote a recent book on FDR's free speech record, arguing that FDR was worse.  Representing the Wilson side in our discussion is Christopher Cox, author of the new book, “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn.” Cox is a former member of the House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years, including as chair of the Homeland Security Committee. He is currently a senior scholar in residence at the University of California, Irvine.  Representing the FDR side is professor David T. Beito, a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He is the author of a number of books, his latest being “The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.” Read the transcript. Timestamps:  00:00 Intro 03:41 Wilson's free speech record 15:13 Was FDR's record worse than Wilson's? 24:01 Japanese internment 29:35 Wilson at the end of his presidency 37:42 FDR and Hugo Black 42:31 The Smith Act 45:42 Did Wilson regret his actions? 50:31 The suffragists 56:19 Did FDR regret his actions? 01:02:04 Outro Show notes: Espionage Act of 1917 Sedition Act of 1918 Executive Order (creating the Committee on Public Information) Schenk v. United States (1919) Abrams v. United States (1919) Smith Act of 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms” speech (1941) The Lend-Lease Program (1941-1945)

David T. Beito's most recent book, and the subject of this conversation, is The New Deal's War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (buy it through the link!), published by the Independent Institute in 2023. The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal have now largely passed from living memory.  When I was in junior high school in the 1970s, however, many of the teachers had not only lived through the New Deal but remembered it as an almost sacred moment.  We watched scratchy black-and-white movies in class about the great success of FDR's New Deal in ending the Great Depression, the soundtrack blaring with “Happy Days Are Here Again.”  David Beito's book is about the dark side of all that, the almost crazy abuse of American civil liberties under FDR's administration.  FDR's Congressional allies, including future Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and Sherman Minton, rifled through individual tax returns and more than 3 million Western Union telegrams to find dirt on outspoken opponents of the New Deal. They proposed criminalizing "false" news. They used regulatory power and private coercion to drive virtually any criticism of the New Deal from the new medium of radio.  And, finally, they put more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent into concentration camps built by the famous Works Progress Administration, and kept them there long after any argument for military necessity had passed.  And that isn't the end of it by any means! And please listen to the last part, in which we discuss the frosty even if perhaps unsurprising silence with which academic historians have responded to David's excellent book. Listen on Apple, if you prefer, or Spotify. X/Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2 and Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast

David Beito discusses his new book The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Peter Boettke chats with David Beito on his latest book, The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023). Beito begins by recounting his early interests in classical liberalism, his association with then fellow student, Nancy MacLean, and his work on tax revolts and mutual aid societies. He then discusses FDR's ideological motivations and his pragmatic approach to politics, critiques FDR's encroachment on civil rights, including his approval of Japanese concentration camps, and explains the contrast between FDR's legacy amongst historians and economists.David T. Beito is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Alabama and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute in California. He is the author of five books including From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2000).If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Virtual Sentiments, our new podcast series from the Hayek Program is now streaming! Subscribe today and listen to season two, now releasing!Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatusCC Music: Twisterium

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, University of Alabama history professor emeritus, and author Dr. David T. Beito joins the show to detail some of the more egregious assaults on the Bill of Rights led by FDR from his new book. This includes Concentration Camps, Censorship and Mass Surveillance, and destroys the false reputation built around him as one of America's "great" Presidents. “The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance” - https://streaklinks.com/Bx_W8fnqKts_CKC0DwpgPn_2/https%3A%2F%2Fusw2.nyl.as%2Ft1%2F2%2Fbwcuxjz31h295aign7xh9a2a7%2F1%2F945b26a9cc25da2ca61a34431e4c0cc97f0af6c10d52a5d365242934a1d4c4d2 Help support what we do and grow our show! http://patreon.com/lionsofliberty OR support us on Locals! https://lionsofliberty.locals.com/ Subscribe to the all new FIRST EPISODE PODCAST! https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ENTSL2339145308 Check out the Lions of Liberty Store, including our hot-off-the-press Big Pharma shirts. https://www.lionsofliberty.store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Mean Age Daydream, University of Alabama history professor emeritus, and author Dr. David T. Beito joins the show to detail some of the more egregious assaults on the Bill of Rights led by FDR from his new book. This includes Concentration Camps, Censorship and Mass Surveillance, and destroys the false reputation built around him as one of America's "great" Presidents. “The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance” - https://streaklinks.com/Bx_W8fnqKts_CKC0DwpgPn_2/https%3A%2F%2Fusw2.nyl.as%2Ft1%2F2%2Fbwcuxjz31h295aign7xh9a2a7%2F1%2F945b26a9cc25da2ca61a34431e4c0cc97f0af6c10d52a5d365242934a1d4c4d2 Help support what we do and grow our show! http://patreon.com/lionsofliberty OR support us on Locals! https://lionsofliberty.locals.com/ Subscribe to the all new FIRST EPISODE PODCAST! https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ENTSL2339145308 Check out the Lions of Liberty Store, including our hot-off-the-press Big Pharma shirts. https://www.lionsofliberty.store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed freedom of speech as the first of his “four freedoms,” but his behavior, including confining over 120,000 American citizens in concentration camps, often belied such flowery prose. In the new book The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, Independent Institute Sr. Fellow David T. Beito exposes FDR's dictatorial endeavors of spying on U.S. citizens, incarcerating minorities, censoring critics and the press, and essentially annihilating the Bill of Rights. Author Biography: David T. Beito is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, and he is the recipient of the Ellis Hawley Prize. Beito is also the author of T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, and Civil Rights Pioneer (with Linda Royster Beito). He is the former President of the Alabama Scholars Association and Chair of the Alabama State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. For more info on the book click HERE --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-richards/support

Human nature (especially politicians) does not change. FDR's tactics and goals in attacking the Bill of Rights differ from today's political class only in the technology available to him. David Beito, professor emeritus of history at Univ of Alabama and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute joins to discuss his book, "The New Deal's War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance".Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

(2:00) Bannon takes offense that Speaker Johnson says Biden was ordained as President by God. Since Trump is god to these people, how could he possibly ordain his opponent? Does Bannon have a problem with all the false prophets of Trump who continually told us Trump would remain in the White House?(20:53) Davos Bond villains' top priorities for the next 2 years and the next 10 years to establish the Fourth Reich, "ze new verld order". Ursula Fond of Lyin, President of EU Commision, brags about DSA — but there's also the CCPA from the USA(37:46) Javier Millei speaks at Davos. What he said in public is spot on regarding economics and feminism.(1:08:48) Milei's secular focus misses the bigger picture — the satanic conspiracy behind things like depopulation and transhumanism(1:23:51) "Ecocide": The Crime of Farming, Fishing, Manufacturing They're not trying to hide their agenda anymore…and Oxford presses on with using the people of town as lab rats in their 15 MINUTE CITY experiment.(1:39:48) Milei OK's local currencies in Argentina as he moves agains the central bank's currency and bitcoin begins to be accepted for payment; EU demands France melt down coins they just made for not conforming to the EU logo — is that the REAL reason?(1:52:55) Euthanasia for CHILDREN in Australia, fentanyl for children in Canada — this is the result of "Children's Rights" and destroying Parental Rights (2:05:39) INTERVIEW FDR's Harbinger of Things to Come — Concentration Camps, Surveillance, CensorshipHuman nature (especially politicians) does not change. FDR's tactics and goals in attacking the Bill of Rights differ from today's political class only in the technology available to him. David Beito, professor emeritus of history at Univ of Alabama and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute joins to discuss his book, "The New Deal's War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance".(02:51:28) Trump Delusion Reaches Pandemic ProportionsWill Trump stop CBDC? Who did more for Gates — Nuke-y Haley or Benedict Donald? ZeroHedge says if you include Trump's 4th year in evaluating the economy during his administration (lockdowns, stimmy checks, supply chain disruptions) — you "beclown" yourself! Who's the clown?Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

Human nature (especially politicians) does not change. FDR's tactics and goals in attacking the Bill of Rights differ from today's political class only in the technology available to him. David Beito, professor emeritus of history at Univ of Alabama and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute joins to discuss his book, "The New Deal's War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance".Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

(2:00) Bannon takes offense that Speaker Johnson says Biden was ordained as President by God. Since Trump is god to these people, how could he possibly ordain his opponent? Does Bannon have a problem with all the false prophets of Trump who continually told us Trump would remain in the White House?(20:53) Davos Bond villains' top priorities for the next 2 years and the next 10 years to establish the Fourth Reich, "ze new verld order". Ursula Fond of Lyin, President of EU Commision, brags about DSA — but there's also the CCPA from the USA(37:46) Javier Millei speaks at Davos. What he said in public is spot on regarding economics and feminism.(1:08:48) Milei's secular focus misses the bigger picture — the satanic conspiracy behind things like depopulation and transhumanism(1:23:51) "Ecocide": The Crime of Farming, Fishing, Manufacturing They're not trying to hide their agenda anymore…and Oxford presses on with using the people of town as lab rats in their 15 MINUTE CITY experiment.(1:39:48) Milei OK's local currencies in Argentina as he moves agains the central bank's currency and bitcoin begins to be accepted for payment; EU demands France melt down coins they just made for not conforming to the EU logo — is that the REAL reason?(1:52:55) Euthanasia for CHILDREN in Australia, fentanyl for children in Canada — this is the result of "Children's Rights" and destroying Parental Rights(2:05:39) INTERVIEW FDR's Harbinger of Things to Come — Concentration Camps, Surveillance, CensorshipHuman nature (especially politicians) does not change. FDR's tactics and goals in attacking the Bill of Rights differ from today's political class only in the technology available to him. David Beito, professor emeritus of history at Univ of Alabama and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute joins to discuss his book, "The New Deal's War On the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance".(02:51:28) Trump Delusion Reaches Pandemic ProportionsWill Trump stop CBDC? Who did more for Gates — Nuke-y Haley or Benedict Donald? ZeroHedge says if you include Trump's 4th year in evaluating the economy during his administration (lockdowns, stimmy checks, supply chain disruptions) — you "beclown" yourself! Who's the clown?Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

In Episode 129 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with David T. Beito, author ofThe New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. Heartland's Tim Benson joined by David T. Beito, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, to discuss his new book, The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. They chat about Roosevelt's intellectual roots, his willingness to put the New Deal regulatory and welfare state apparatus at the service of big city machine bosses to quash civil liberties, and his and his allies' attacks on the speech rights of newspaper publishers and radio stations. They also discuss FDR's true role in the internment of Japanese Americans and whether the Second World War was a “good war” for free speech and civil liberties compared to the Great War.  Get the book here: https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=142 Show Notes: National Review: Timothy Sandefur – “FDR's Campaign of Intimidation”https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/10/16/fdrs-campaign-of-intimidation/ Reason: David T. Beito – “How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II”https://reason.com/2023/12/27/how-fdr-emasculated-the-black-press-in-world-war-ii/ Reason: David T. Beito – “When the Left and Right Came Together To Applaud Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”https://reason.com/2023/09/23/when-the-left-and-right-came-together-to-applaud-mr-smith-goes-to-washington/

In Episode 129 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with David T. Beito, author ofThe New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.  Heartland's Tim Benson joined by David T. Beito, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama, to discuss his new book, The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. They chat about Roosevelt's intellectual roots, his willingness to put the New Deal regulatory and welfare state apparatus at the service of big city machine bosses to quash civil liberties, and his and his allies' attacks on the speech rights of newspaper publishers and radio stations. They also discuss FDR's true role in the internment of Japanese Americans and whether the Second World War was a “good war” for free speech and civil liberties compared to the Great War.  Get the book here: https://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=142  Show Notes:  National Review: Timothy Sandefur – “FDR's Campaign of Intimidation” https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/10/16/fdrs-campaign-of-intimidation/  Reason: David T. Beito – “How FDR Emasculated the Black Press in World War II” https://reason.com/2023/12/27/how-fdr-emasculated-the-black-press-in-world-war-ii/  Reason: David T. Beito – “When the Left and Right Came Together To Applaud Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” https://reason.com/2023/09/23/when-the-left-and-right-came-together-to-applaud-mr-smith-goes-to-washington/ 

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. Lauded for his New Deal policies, leadership as a wartime president, cozy fireside chats, and groundbreaking support of the "forgotten man," FDR, we have been told, is worthy of the same praise as men like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.... But is that true? Does the father of today's welfare state really deserve such generous approbation? Or is there a dark side to this golden legacy? The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023) unveils a much different portrait than the standard orthodoxy found in today's historical studies. Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal are back in fashion these days, featuring some truly strange bedfellows. Liberal intellectuals told President Biden that he could become the next FDR if he simply spent like a convention of drunken sailors, but some of the "national conservatives" also suddenly like FDR and think we should emulate the New Deal's economic policies, which surely has Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley rolling over in their graves.Meanwhile, historians have neglected FDR's record on civil liberties, with the conspicuous exception of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II because that is too large a blot to be ignored (though even that story is not understood fully or accurately). Historian David Beito explores this forgotten aspect of FDR and the New Deal in his new book, The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveilance. There's probably a connection between the New Deal's political economy and constitutionalism and these offenses to civil liberties—the point Hayek made in his misunderstood Road to Serfdom—that modern-day FDR admirers ought to keep in mind

David Beito exposes the many civil liberties abuses of FDR. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on Twitter.Today's book: The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance by David Beito

Biden incoherently mumbles at the UN today, embarassing us on a world stage again! PLUS, Professor David Beito, research fellow at the Independent Institute, sets the record straight on FDR's presidency (and it's eerily similar to Joe Biden's) in his new book The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. And Andy Ross is in the business of privacy - he tells Shaun about his company American Rebel, and their pledge to privacy of your gun safes!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Beito is author of The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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