Congress’s newly minted Epstein Files Transparency Act—a bipartisan law co‑authored by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna—was supposed to leave no room for discretion. It required Attorney General Pam Bondi, who serves President Donald Trump, to release all...
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The Praxeology of Conspiracies
The starting point of praxeology, i.e., the logic of human action, is a self-evident truth. As economist Ludwig von Mises noted, this truth is “the cognition of the fact that there is such a thing as consciously aiming at ends.” Praxeology describes the invariant...
TGIF: “Due Process” under Anarcho-Capitalism
Libertarian advocates of minimal government, such as the late Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974), have feared that individuals in a stateless libertarian society would face corrupt or careless protection firms that used "risky" rights-enforcement...
From Iran-Contra to Trump: How Zionism Took Over the Deep State
The most politically prescient movie when it comes to the networks infiltrating our government these last forty years must be Power, director Sidney Lumet’s 1986 vehicle for exploring America’s mechanisms of political control, his informal sequel to the much more...
The Eurasian Trap
When President Donald Trump celebrated Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords, he spoke of peace and partnership in the familiar language of statesmen. The announcement sounded like a diplomatic victory in a region marked by instability. In reality, it...
Israel, Palestine, and American Education
It is often said that good educators teach students how to think, not what to think. This is indeed a profound notion. Sadly, we have witnessed a great deal of hypocrisy in attaining this aspiration. Moreover, despite an obsessive focus on constructing “safe spaces”...
Zelensky’s NATO Confession
A key reason that Russia went to war in Ukraine was to prevent Ukraine from ever joining NATO; a key reason that Ukraine went to war with Russia was to defend their right to join NATO. On December 14, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave up Ukraine’s right to...
TGIF: Notes on Anarcho-Capitalism
I'm pretty sure I won't be around long enough to see anarcho-capitalism—or what I call market-ordered anarchism—prevail in the United States. I'm just as sure that I won't see government strictly limited to protecting individual rights and never violating them (if...
WMDs for a MIC in Need
In the closing days of 2025, the White House turned an opioid crisis into a national security drama. Standing in the Oval Office during a Mexican Border Defense Medal ceremony on December 15, President Donald Trump declared that he would sign an executive order to...
Smashing the ‘Roosevelt Myth’
David T. Beito’s FDR: A New Political Life offers a bracing, deeply researched, and welcome reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that decisively breaks with the hagiographic tradition that has dominated twentieth century American historiography. The book’s...
Birthright Citizenship Just Makes Sense
There are lots of historical precedents for large numbers of multigenerational non-citizens in a country. None of them are attractive examples to follow. There were the Jews in ancient Egypt, the Huns and the Vandals in the Roman Empire, Irish Catholics under penal...
Europe Is America’s Sacrifice
The bombs never fall on Washington, and that has always been Europe’s problem. Europe often claims it is finally awake and that the war in Ukraine has clarified the stakes of this century. The deeper lesson is older and harder: the continent is positioned, not...
The Folly of Establishing a U.S. Military Base in Damascus
Recent reports indicate the United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, allegedly to facilitate a security agreement between Syria and Israel. This development represents yet another misguided expansion of American military...
The Palmer Raids: A Precedent for Today’s Immigration Policy Abuses?
Americans who value civil liberties are justifiably outraged at reports about some of the enforcement tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Similar complaints are now surfacing about the behavior of ICE’s sister agency, Customs and Border...
Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse
Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat,...
Venezuela and the Empire of Lies
Once again, the U.S. global military empire is the father of the fear that it propagates. And this time it’s right here in our own backyard. Just as freezing Russia’s dollar assets has encouraged foreign central banks’ gold accumulation and driven global...
TGIF: Trump Weighs in on Netflix, WBD, and CNN
The proposed merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) "could be a problem," Donald Trump says, because Netflix has "a very big market share. When they have Warner Bros., that share goes up a lot." He said he would consult "some economists" on the matter,...
Trump’s National Security Strategy Breaks with Hegemony—But Not with Militarism
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy of the United States of America, published last week, presents itself as a decisive break from the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that has shaped Washington’s posture since the end of the Cold War. In some...
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