Amid soaring tensions with the U.S. and China, the State Department approved a previously revealed White House plan to supply $1.1 billion in arms to Taiwan, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This announcement has angered Beijing which warned of...
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How a Classical Frenchman Predicted the 21st Century’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
by Bas Spliet | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Two hundred years ago, Benjamin Constant foresaw the rise of humanitarian intervention as the foremost modern pretext for war. In the age of commerce and democracy, the state had to concoct "scandalous lies" to subvert the peaceful international order based on free...
What Has Government Done to Our Universities?
by David Brady | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden has stoked more fire into the debate over higher education. The president unveiled a plan to forgive $10,000 of student debt for those making $125,000 a year or less, or $20,000 if that borrower was a recipient of a Pell Grant. While one can argue about the...
Liz Truss and the Future of British Imperialism
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as the British prime minister after the UK’s Conservative Party voted to make her the leader of the government. She beat out former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and is expected to be formally named prime...
Don’t Celebrate Labor Day If You Advocate Regulating Laborers
by Bryan Caplan | Sep 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
My 13-year-old homeschooled sons just finished my labor economics class. I hope they take many more economics classes, but I’ll be perfectly satisfied with their grasp of economics as long as they internalize what they learned this semester. Why? Because...
A Permanent Solution to Deep State Tyranny
by Keith Knight | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually...
For 18 Months, as ISIS Advanced, the U.S. Did Nothing to Stop Them
by William Van Wagenen | Sep 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2017, U.S. and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, U.S. forces conducted massive air strikes on the Iraqi city of Mosul, to...
TGIF: National Conservatism’s Ominous Economics
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
National conservatism is objectionable on many counts -- the name in itself tells you that -- but it does pay tribute to free enterprise. A closer look, however, may cause one to doubt its commitment. The movement's official Statement of Principles includes Principle...