NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kiev from the United States and its European allies following...
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Who Counts: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationality
by Brandt Burleson | Oct 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
“I wear two hats, one representing the people of Israel, the other representing the Jewish people around the world." These are the words I was instructed to write into more remarks than I can remember over my eight and a half years working as the Strategic Outreach...
Jumpstarting the Reputation of Interwar Diplomacy
by Michael Ellis | Oct 6, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
The Washington Naval Treaty is usually treated, when mentioned at all by historians, as an unmitigated failure, but—although he says this in the most pianissimo tones—I think John Jordan’s Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets,...
TGIF: Free Movement Increases Wealth
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 3, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In a recent interview with Nathan Goodman of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Professor Michael Clemens, a GMU specialist in migration economics, put forth "a strange and striking fact about the world economy." A lower-skilled person's location in the...
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rate Suppression, and the Reach for Yield
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
With Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve beginning a cutting cycle, it is worth revisiting why the Feds manipulation of interest rates is not a harmless (if misguided) technocratic tool for attempting to “fine-tune” the economy, but is instead a source of deep...
Our Whole Concept of Taxes is Upside Down
by Jeb Smith | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
Under a democratic state, your money can be likened to a piece of bread thrown into a pond where fish from both the left and right nibble away. Your money and rights are fought over and consumed in ways you did not consent to. In modern governmental systems, the tax...
That Time the United States Gave Iran Highly Enriched Uranium…
by Clark Patterson | Oct 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarians frequently note the incoherence of American and Israeli foreign policy. Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to American and Israeli relations with Iran over the last seventy-five years. Last June, the United States and Israel bombed Iran on...
Tariffs Don’t Lighten the Way Forward, They Darken It
by R. T. Hadley | Oct 1, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
“We candlemakers are suffering from the unfair competition of a foreign rival, whose production costs are so low that he floods our market with light at a price far below ours…This rival is none other than the sun.”- Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845) Frédéric...