One of Donald Trump’s first official actions as president was to sign an executive order designed to protect freedom of expression against government pressure. Soon after, Vice President J.D. Vance issued a vigorous challenge at the Munich Security Conference to...
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Don’t Treat Pro-Palestine Protesters Like J6 Protesters
by Jack Hunter | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
“Treason.” “Sedition.” “Coup.” These were the words used immediately to describe the protesters—or “insurrectionists” who participated in the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. As ugly as that day was without having to embellish, Democrats and Never Trump...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Battle of Technocrats vs. Activists
by Matt Wolfson | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is one of those events that can divide a room, or an X space, just by being referenced. The facts are deceptively simple. A Palestinian student at an Ivy League University on a foreign visa who organized protests at which some participants...
Chronicle of An Unnecessary War: How the West Provoked Russia and Squandered Peace
by Michael Holmes | Mar 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton’s 900-page masterpiece, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, is a hugely important work that meticulously documents how three decades of Western encirclement provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
The End of U.S. Soft Power?
by Brad Pearce | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump's second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government....
TGIF: The Income Stagnation Myth
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 21, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Many people, including some free-market advocates, think Americans are materially worse off today than they were in the 1970s. Some subscribers to that view blame globalization, that is, free trade in goods, which means in labor services. By any reasonable measure,...
One Majority to Rule Them All
by Jeb Smith | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Decentralization, or localism, is based first on the extended family or household; when grouped with other clans, this became a locality creating laws organically for the benefit of all. On the other hand, centralization occurs when forces far from these...
American Efforts to Separate Russia from China are Doomed to Fail
by José Niño | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, there was an initial sense of hope that he would wind down the conflict in Ukraine. However, continued flows of military aid to Ukraine and slow progress in the negotiations still make a lasting peace...