The existence of Klaus Schwab became known to much of the thinking world during the Coronapocalypse, when so-called conspiracy theories began to flourish about the use of the novel COVID-19 virus as a pretext for reconfiguring the world. The “Great Reset” and the “New...
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Let Colleges Fail!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 1, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
In Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education, Richard K. Vedder delivers a timely, incisive, and much-needed diagnosis of America’s bloated and increasingly dysfunctional university system. Published by the Independent Institute,...
50 Years On, Washington Has Learned Nothing from Defeat in Vietnam
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Today, April 30, 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam. The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof...
On Free Speech, Trump’s as Bad as Biden
by Jack Hunter | Apr 30, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In September, candidate Donald Trump vowed, “I will bring back free speech in America...I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under...
Trump Revives the Alien and Sedition Acts
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 29, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
President Donald Trump promised to revive the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 during his campaign last fall. “To expedite removals of this savage gang,” Trump pledged in an October campaign stop, “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every...
100 Days: What Trump Told TIME
by Ted Snider | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On April 22, U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with Time on his first one hundred days in office. On foreign policy he made two bold claims. The first was that he would successfully conclude diplomatic deals in the Ukrainian-Russian war and in Iran. The...
America Should Bolt From the World Bank and IMF
by Jim Bovard | Apr 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained on Wednesday that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that the Trump administration will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest...
Ukraine’s NATO Membership Was Always Russia’s Red Line
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, the Kremlin said it was finally satisfied with Washington’s position on future NATO membership for Kiev. "We have heard from Washington at various levels that NATO membership for Ukraine has been ruled out,” Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained. “And...