I've been watching and thinking about the nationwide campus antiwar demonstrations in support of the suffering Palestinians of Gaza, and the appalling reaction to and "coverage" of those events. Something important needs to be addressed. I won't be concerned here with...
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We’ve Always Known Standing Armies Are a Threat to Liberty
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Thomas Gordon's A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain, published in 1722, is a significant piece of literature in the canon of classical liberalism, critiquing the presence and role of standing...
Britain’s ID Card Proponents Expose Their Own Naivety
by Owen Ashworth | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
David Blunkett, the former United Kingdom Home Secretary, appeared on the Politics Live show this week and argued obstinately for the introduction of ID cards, saying “My guess is we will get ID cards under a Labour government." This is quite concerning since the next...
Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,...
Conservatives Against ‘Hate Speech’
by Tom Woods | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It's pretty sad watching conservatives argue like leftists, but it's all over the place now. Not so long ago they rightly ridiculed and dismissed the idea of "hate speech," but now that "anti-Semitism" is said to be the problem, all of a sudden the idea of hate speech...
The Creature From Palestine
by John Weeks | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The state is a monster that eats itself, along with individuals within its domain, its spheres of influence, and beyond. Citizens typically don’t perceive this due to the crafty rhetoric generated by the state’s intellectuals. Sometimes the rhetorical machinery breaks...
Attorneys Inside the Biden Administration Urge United States To Cut Off Israel
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A group of at least 90 lawyers, including 20 who work in the Biden administration, are urging President [Joe] Biden to cut off military aid to Israel because its slaughter in Gaza doesn’t comply with U.S. and international law. The attorneys will make their case in a...
A Problem From Hell
by Kym Robinson | Apr 29, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
"Indifference can be just as deadly as direct violence.”- Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell When Raphael Lemkin came up with the word "genocide," he needed a handle for the savagery of mass murder that was occurring in the 1940s and the years before. Unfortunately,...