Judge Napolitano on Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt; Amity Shlaes on Coolidge and FDR

On
Friday’s special President’s Day episode of
The Independents, Fox News
Senior Judicial Analyst and Reason.com
columnist Andrew Napolitano celebrated the holiday by sharply
criticizing the revered president Abraham Lincoln:

For more on Napolitano’s Civil War-related commentary, consult
his
Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in
America. The judge’s latest book,
Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed
Constitutional Freedom, was subject of another
Independents segment:

Also comparing presidents was Amity Shlaes, author most recently
of
Coolidge, and also
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression:

Reminder: All these videos and many score more are available on
The Independents’ playlist
page.

Nick Gillespie interviewed Shlaes for Reason in
2007, and Napolitano for Reason.tv in
2011. The judge also got cross-examined by
Brian Doherty in 2007, and Damon Root in 2010.