One of the most significant (and often abused) clauses in the U.S. Constitution is the “Necessary and Proper” Clause. The clause states: “The Congress shall have Power… To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing...
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30 Years With No Strategy Brought Us the War in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | May 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington DC has not excelled in grand strategy; the art and science of cost-effectively employing the diplomatic, economic, and informational powers of the United States in combination with its armed forces to secure its national goals and interests. Most of the...
‘There Is No Off-Ramp’: A Recipe for Nuclear War
by Connor Freeman | May 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As if he were holding a gun at our back, President Joe Biden is pushing Americans ever higher on the escalation ladder with Moscow. Recently, former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned that Washington...
TGIF: True Liberals Are Not Conservatives
by Sheldon Richman | May 20, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The relevance of F. A. Hayek's essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative," the postscript to his important 1960 book, The Constitution of Liberty, is demonstrated at once by the opening quote from Lord Acton: At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its...
By Banning Russian Oil, Europe Forgot How It Won the Cold War
by Bas Spliet | May 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The European Union is close to reaching an agreement on banning the import of Russian oil. Some Eastern-European member states, particularly Hungary, are trying to obtain exemptions or delays on the implementation of the ban. All in all, however, it seems likely that...
This Is Who Will Build the Roads
by Starte Butone | May 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
A common counter-argument to many libertarian principles goes something along the lines of, “Without the government, who will build to roads?" Almost everyone who has tried to debate libertarian ideology will encounter this argument at some point. In the minds of many...
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: From Propaganda to Censorship to Tyranny
by Laurie Calhoun | May 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
Spectacle and theater have come to dominate the political arena today, even more so than ever before. Politicians are now celebrity oligarchs, who use tax revenues to promote their pet projects, and to enhance their personal investment portfolios, while pretending in...
French, German, and Italian Heads of State All Endorse Negotiated End to War in Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | May 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, the leaders of the three largest EU countries by population—France, Germany, and Italy—have all come out in favor of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow as a way to end the fighting in Ukraine. Unlike President Biden, French President Emmanuel...