“A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.” Scott Horton is the liberty movement’s foreign policy hedgehog, endeavoring to convince the American public of one essential truth: the folly of war. But within that sphere, Horton is a fox, weaving an...
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TGIF: “Corporate” Is Not a Four-Letter Word
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 13, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I rise today to protest the widespread and malicious use of the adjective corporate as a synonym for evil, corrupt, exploitative, or any number of other pejoratives. As a descriptor, corporate merely says that an association that makes or sells goods for profit is...
The DOGE(s) Before DOGE
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, History, Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, represents the latest in a long line of ambitious attempts to streamline the U.S. federal government and address fiscal inefficiencies....
Liars of Valor
by Kym Robinson | Dec 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
There are some names that are sacred heroes in American military history, such as Alvin York and Audie Murphy, men with charming virtue who fought in "good wars." But since the American defeat in Vietnam, war has become distinctly complicated, and so too has the...
To Help Syria, America Must Walk Away
by Lora Karch | Dec 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The short-lived Assad dynasty has a complex history that ironically came to power by participating in a series of coups that ultimately established the family’s leadership in 1971. Bashar’s father, Hafez, was a key player in the 1963 Syrian Coup d’Etat that brought...
Leave Syria Alone!
by Daniel Larison | Dec 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule is an opportunity for the United States to overhaul its bankrupt Syria policy. The U.S. should have abandoned this policy years earlier, but now there are no longer any pretexts for continuing the collective punishment of the...
First Syria, Next Iran?
by Dan McKnight | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After over fifty-three years of sitting on their throne in Damascus, the Assad family's regime has collapsed in Syria. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow without a word, the rebels are in command of every major city and airport, and prisons have been opened. The...
One Day, Ukrainians Might Hate America
by Ted Snider | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There was a time, just before and just after Russia's invasion, that Ukraine might have lost no territory except Crimea and few lives. But America said no. In December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the United States and NATO with a proposal on...