Many books have been written about the rise and fall of great powers. Authors after the fact speculate on what went wrong and how the decline started, while those contemporary writers during the ascendance promise a future of brilliance and endless prosperity. For...
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Cluster Bomb Catastrophe
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government’s disdain for international law as expressed in the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made plain during the Global War on Terror, through its offensive military invasions and its...
Trusting the 9/11 Commission Is An Automatic Disqualification
by Jim Bovard | Aug 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The nation’s media and political establishment were horrified the other week when a presidential candidate cast aspersions on the 9/11 Commission report. Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, in an interview on Blaze TV, responded to a question on the 9/11 attacks, “I don’t...
TGIF: Why Liberty Matters
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 11, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Why does liberty matter? It’s a fair question because, after all, not everyone thinks it matters very much, perhaps beyond some very basic point. If that’s an overstatement, we can safely say that for many people on the left and right, liberty is a lower priority than...
The Global South Stands Up
by Ted Snider | Aug 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive and chances of winning the war begin to show signs of falling apart, and the realization that, eventually, Ukraine will end the war only through negotiations begins to dawn, Kiev has begun a campaign of conferences to court the neutral...
Exchanging the Rust Belt for Military Bases: Foreign Policy and Deindustrialization
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 9, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While the benefits of trade liberalization in the postwar period have been abundant, readers may be surprised to learn how secondary (or even nonexistent) consideration of such possible benefits were to U.S. policymakers. Rather, trade liberalization following World...
Biden’s Unwinnable War in Ukraine is His Weakest Policy
by Trenton Hale | Aug 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Many Americans regard Joe Biden’s performance as president to be poor, as noted by his approval/disapproval ratings. While most point to his record on inflation, immigration, crime, and the overall economy to be the lows of presidency, what should be is his poor...
The Fluid Morality of Statism
by Kym Robinson | Aug 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
For anyone who has been forced to justify their beliefs when it comes to individual liberty, we are often placed onto the back foot in the defense of the imaginary. The what if? emerges as an ideological assault that somehow is expected to prove the supremacy of the...