The following essay is adapted from Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton’s statement in his October 4, 2021 Soho Forum debate with William Kristol, director of the Foreign Policy Initiative and editor of the Bulwark. The resolution was, "A willingness to...
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TGIF: Looking for the Green New Deal
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I was all set this week to plunge into the details of the Green New Deal so I could see what new impositions the climate-alarmist politicians have in store for us. Then I made a startling discovery. (Startling for me, that is. I'm behind the news curve.) The Green New...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
by Jim Bovard | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy,” as Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967. As a journalist, I have battled federal agencies for decades to try to discover the sordid details of how Americans’ rights and liberties are being shafted. Most government...
Don’t Draft Women (Or Men Either)
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted for the purposes of concealing matters from the public. Both parties have been long guilty of this, with both groups using the NDAA to...
Unvaccinated Woman Denied Life-Saving Medical Procedure
by Matt Agorist | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Primum non nocere or “First do no harm,” is part of the Hippocratic oath to which doctors across the United States and the West swear to follow. The ethical code is issued by medical associations, such as the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, and provides a comprehensive...
What’s Worse: Murder vs. Traffic Fatalities
by Walter E. Block | Oct 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles
The murder rate in 2020 was at an all time high, and commentators are in a tizzy about this. It turns out that there were 21,570 homicides in the United States. This is an unprecedented increase of almost 30% compared to 2019. An additional 4901 people were murdered...
What We Have to Gain from a National Default
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 6, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Biden administration's rhetoric on the debt ceiling has become nothing short of apocalyptic. The Treasury Department has announced that a failure to increase the debt ceiling "would have catastrophic economic consequences" and would, as NBC news claims, constitute...
The Exchange: A Citizen and a State Agent in Victoria, Australia
by Kym Robinson | Oct 5, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Footage of police violence and the tantrums of the mob during the recent lockdown protests, not just in the Australian state of Victoria but the world over, depict a division between the powerful armed professionals of the government and the angry rage from some parts...