The Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse During the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 7, 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of gunmen. His first lady, Martin Moïse, was critically injured. She was airlifted to Florida...
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Another Failed 20-Year War: America vs. Somalia
by Scott Horton | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton's new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. Freedom Works The name "Somalia" has somehow become a slur against Americans who prioritize political liberty. "Oh, you...
My Journey from Marxism to Liberty
by Michael Rectenwald | Jul 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the fall of 2016, I was a left communist. As I will show below, I came to this position after a circuitous tour through numerous sects of Marxism. A year later, I had thoroughly renounced Marxism and embraced the views of free market economists and philosophers...
TGIF: Watch the Forest as Well as the Trees
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
It's always important not to miss the forest for the trees. U.S. government announcements, such as its report of the turnover to the Afghan government of the seventh and last military base in Afghanistan, Bagram, should lead no one to think that U.S. foreign policy...
National Service and the State’s Condemnation of Youthful Independence
by Jim Bovard | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
"Beatings will continue until morale improves” has morphed from an old joke to the latest prescription for national salvation. “Compulsory National Service Could Unite America,” whooped a New York Times Op-ed headline last week. Prominent media outlets, think tanks,...
Like Vietnam, the War in Afghanistan Shows the Disasters of Interventionism
by Ron Paul | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The end of the 20-year U.S. war on Afghanistan was predictable: no one has conquered Afghanistan, and Washington was as foolish as Moscow in the 1970s for trying. Now, U.S. troops are rushing out of the country as fast as they can, having just evacuated the symbol of...
Consent of the Governed?
by Robert Higgs | Jul 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What gives some people the right to rule others? At least since John Locke’s time, the most common and seemingly compelling answer has been “the consent of the governed.” When the North American revolutionaries set out to justify their secession from the British...
Will the United Kingdom Trip Us Into a War with Russia?
by Ron Paul | Jul 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Less than two weeks after NATO members reaffirmed allegiance to Article 5—that an attack on one member was an attack on all members—the UK nearly put that pledge to the test. In a shockingly provocative move, the UK’s HMS Defender purposely sailed into Crimean...