On June 1, 1983, at a morning session of the Cato Institute Summer Seminar, attendees bore witness to what remains to this day one of the greatest single revisionist retellings of the tragic and formative period of world history: 1914-1945. For three hours, Dr. Ralph...
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Israel’s Newfound ‘Freedom of Action’ Portends Regional War
by Connor Freeman | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former ISIS deputy commander Abu Mohammed al-Julani and his rebranded Al Qaeda affiliate, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have sacked Damascus. Once again, as with the CIA’s brutal dirty war against the Syrian government under Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s regime has sided...
TGIF: Capitalist Exploitation or Interest?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 3, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The completely just proposition that the worker is to receive the entire value of his product can be reasonably interpreted to mean either that he is to receive the full present value of his product now or that he is to get the entire future value in the future. But...
Thank the Feds for a Million COVID Dead
by Jim Bovard | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal exposed how federal agencies helped carry out the biggest scientific con of the century. In early 2020, when the COVID pandemic was starting to ravage America, federal bureaucrats and politicians rushed to suppress any suggestion...
The Year History Bit Back
by Brad Pearce | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
2024 marked the 35th anniversary of the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s famous essay, “The End of History?” in The National Interest. Suffice to say, its thesis looks more wrong than ever. It must be acknowledged that Fukuyama’s arguments were somewhat more complex...
Drones Run Amok
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above New Jersey. Local, state, and federal authorities claimed that they did not know whose drones they were. The expression “baseless...
U.S. Foreign Policy 101: Rebranding Villains into Partners
by Ted Snider | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Maybe Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who is now the leader of Syria, really has changed. Maybe he has matured, as he told CNN, as if his years as an al-Qaeda terrorist leader were a youthful indiscretion. But the world cannot simply...
TGIF: Social Cooperation Versus Violence
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 27, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The chilling photo of a hooded man cold-bloodedly executing a health-insurance CEO on a busy New York City street should make any decent person pause and reflect. Anyone who even glimpses the role of social cooperation in making life better and longer felt sickened,...