If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of...
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Promises Made, Promises Betrayed
by Alan Mosley | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In his polemical essay Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell argues that grand political visions seldom survive contact with reality. Politicians promise to banish war and debt, only to preside over more of both. The bigger the promises, the easier it is to...
TGIF: Social Peace through Government Retrenchment
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 19, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths people will go to get their hands on it before their ideological opponents do. This is not rocket science, yet resistance to...
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Plan to ‘Educate’ America’s Next Elite
by Matt Wolfson | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a...
The ‘Fake China Threat’ Vindicated
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For several years and in a variety of works at the Libertarian and Mises Institutes, I have argued that Washington’s bipartisan consensus about Beijing as an aggressive, revisionist challenger to U.S. global supremacy was deeply misguided. Far from seeking global...
The Strange Case of Summary Execution of Eleven Suspects in Caribbean Waters
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government has been executing suspected terrorists without indictment, much less trial, since the dawning of the Drone Age, on November 3, 2002. On that day, the George W. Bush administration used a Predator drone to dispatch six alleged terrorist suspects in...
Shooting Down Russian Drones Over Poland
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The world is now closer to a full-scale war between NATO and Russia than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early morning hours of September 10, 2025, Western air defenses spotted a fleet of Russian drones that had entered Poland’s...
Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?
by Jim Bovard | Sep 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from...