Government waste is a problem, but, unfortunately, DOGE is not man’s best friend in this case. Six months after its dramatic rollout, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lost its most famous face. Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul once touted as the...
The United States is, once again, on the precipice of entering another war in the Middle East. After months of productive negotiations between the Trump administration and the Iranian government to reach a new nuclear deal, the talks were broken off by a series of...
As the United States edges closer to another military entanglement—this time over the pretense of Iran’s nuclear program—it’s worth revisiting the controversial but deeply compelling argument made by the late Kenneth Waltz in his 2012 Foreign Affairs article, Why Iran...
There is not a single demographic in the United States whose majority is not opposed to American involvement in Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, according to a new poll published by YouGov and the Economist. Perhaps most crucially, this includes voters who...
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done…Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know...
Professor J.R.R Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, has been described as an anarcho-monarchist, and he incorporated those political ideals into Middle-earth. Among them was his stance against coercion. "The story is cast in terms of a good side,...
A lifelong family friend brought up the subject of government-funded science at a family cookout recently, and was surprised to hear my opposition to it. “Well, I don’t think we should be taxing people to study the sex life of quails on cocaine,” I responded...
At this point, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address needs no introduction. The thirty-sixth president’s warning about the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex” has been cited so often that its...
I wrote this in 2015 to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, or Great Charter. In light of current events—featuring a president who aspires to unchecked power, despairs of the rule of law, and has discussed suspending the right of habeas corpus—the posting of...
As of April 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at a staggering $36.2 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that net interest payments on this debt alone will reach $952 billion in fiscal year 2025—nearly a trillion dollars just to service past...
One of the reasons the American political establishment really hates it when Trump is president is that his administration has a tendency to bring out and exaggerate dynamics at play in Washington DC that the establishment would prefer to keep hidden. One such example...
Editor's note: Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton gave this speech to the Tbilisi Summer Forum on June 6, 2025. No offense, but Georgia’s interests are just none of my affair. It’s such a long way from here. I know my government has been messing around there...
During a recent interview with CNN correspondent Elle Reeve, comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon provided a self-effacing but thoughtful critique of the mainstream media. Unlike Jon Stewart, who famously went on Crossfire in 2004 to call the kettle black, Dillon’s...
Back in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan famously championed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), referred to colloquially as “Star Wars.” Forty years later, in 2025, President Donald Trump has thrown his enthusiastic support behind what is tantamount to a...
Originally tribes of extended families and like-minded individuals joined together to create a community. They were self-governing and consenting associations of individuals, a unified whole. The head patriarch acted as a king, the head of the community, ensuring...
