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...
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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...
Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed U.S. Troops
by Scott Horton and John Weeks | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, September 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, on stage for a discussion at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. The summit is one of the most...
Is Spain Tearing the NATO Consensus?
by José Niño | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Spain, long seen as a loyal NATO ally, is now carving out a path that could make it the West’s most unexpected rebel. Since 2023, the Spanish government under the leadership of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pursued an increasingly independent course that directly...
Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters
by Jim Bovard | Sep 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced...
Remembering Pope John Paul II’s Crusade Against War
by James Rushmore | Sep 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for peace in the Gaza Strip, this time by commending the various Catholic organizations who registered their solidarity with the besieged population of the territory. Since assuming the papacy in April, Leo has consistently...
TGIF: Trump Fibbed about Favoring Free Speech
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 26, 2025 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
Leonard Read, Still Educating Today
by Alan Mosley | Sep 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Few twentieth‑century champions of laissez‑faire economics have cast a longer shadow than Leonard Edward Read. Born in Hubbardston, Michigan in 1898, Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and wrote nearly thirty books and hundreds of essays. He...