The people performing those mind-boggling contortions to justify, on libertarian grounds, state violence against migrants without papers—restrictatarians, I call them—cite a 1994 article by Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) in support of their double-jointed acrobatics....
A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands of Americans died and scores of thousands of Iraqis perished due to the official myth of Saddam Hussein as the twentieth...
William J. Watkins Jr.’s The Independent Guide to the Constitution: Original Intentions, Modern Inventions is an admirably clear-eyed and disciplined examination of a document that has, over the course of two centuries, been transformed from a charter of limited and...
On the evening of Tuesday, January 13, 2026, ten days after the Donald Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, The Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive report asserting that “the support of the Venezuelan opposition led by Maria...
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has arrived in Australia. Herzog’s visit is a gesture of unified narrative, an about-face by the Australian government after its recognition of Palestine and a return to an endorsement of Israels colonialism and genocide. While...
When Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, its supporters promised something approaching accountability. The bill, championed by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all...
Public discussion of the Epstein files has largely centered on individual misconduct and reputational fallout. That emphasis risks overlooking the more consequential question raised by the Justice Department’s response to the disclosure mandate. The episode is less...
The camera crews assembled at the Justice Department in March 2024 to capture what prosecutors described as a landmark conviction. Juan Orlando Hernández, who had served as Honduras's president from 2014 to 2022, stood convicted of conspiring to import over four...
