Government waste is a problem, but, unfortunately, DOGE is not man’s best friend in this case. Six months after its dramatic rollout, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lost its most famous face. Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul once touted as the...
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War with Iran Is Not in the Interest of the American People
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States is, once again, on the precipice of entering another war in the Middle East. After months of productive negotiations between the Trump administration and the Iranian government to reach a new nuclear deal, the talks were broken off by a series of...
A Nuclear Iran Isn’t America’s Problem
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the United States edges closer to another military entanglement—this time over the pretense of Iran’s nuclear program—it’s worth revisiting the controversial but deeply compelling argument made by the late Kenneth Waltz in his 2012 Foreign Affairs article, Why Iran...
America Last: No U.S. Demographic Supports War on Iran
by Connor Freeman and Will Porter | Jun 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is not a single demographic in the United States whose majority is not opposed to American involvement in Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, according to a new poll published by YouGov and the Economist. Perhaps most crucially, this includes voters who backed Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection.
America’s Deception Strengthens Iranian Hardliners
by Ted Snider | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done…Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know...
Libertarian Lessons From Middle-earth
by Jeb Smith | Jun 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Professor J.R.R Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, has been described as an anarcho-monarchist, and he incorporated those political ideals into Middle-earth. Among them was his stance against coercion. "The story is cast in terms of a good side,...
Government-Funded Research: Bad for American Health, Wealth, and Freedom
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 16, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
A lifelong family friend brought up the subject of government-funded science at a family cookout recently, and was surprised to hear my opposition to it. “Well, I don’t think we should be taxing people to study the sex life of quails on cocaine,” I responded...
Eisenhower’s Most Important Lesson
by James Rushmore | Jun 16, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At this point, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address needs no introduction. The thirty-sixth president’s warning about the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex” has been cited so often that its...