A new documentary film, Unknown: Killer Robots (2023), directed by Jesse Sweet and available on Netflix, addresses some of the perhaps surprising developments in artificial intelligence weaponry—above all, the specter of autonomous lethal aircraft systems programmed...
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American Soldiers Are Being Put in Danger for Israel
by Brad Pearce | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the October 7 attacks restarted conflict between Israel and Hamas, U.S. troops have been under fire all over the Middle East. Thus far, most attacks have been deflected with minimal damage, but it is only a matter of time before one gets through and causes a...
Reevaluating Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston
by Hunter DeRensis | Jan 2, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, History
The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West by Timothy B. Smith (LSU Press: 2023), 248 pages "You were still reading that book when I walked by three hours ago. It must be a good one." Sitting outside the cafe, I looked up to see a...
Wilson’s Folly, the Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth
by David Stockman | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Another Christmas and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion warfare state planted on the banks of the Potomac—along with its web of war-making capabilities, bases, alliances and vassals stretching to the...
The Christmas Truce of World War I
by Will Grigg | Dec 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Will Grigg
For a tragically short time, the Spirit of the Prince of Peace drowned out the murderous demands of the State. In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium,...
TGIF: Beware Elitists in Populist Clothing
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 22, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
We're led to believe that today's political struggles are largely a contest between populists and elitists. But something besides libertarians is missing from that simple tale: the elitists in populist clothing, or elitist populists. We have no better example than a...
Taiwan’s Forthcoming Election Is Not An Independence Referendum
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Talk the last few weeks in the corporate press about Taiwan is that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has the coming January presidential election in the bag. They are probably right. The opposition parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and smaller Taiwan People’s Party...
Do You Hear What I Hear? A Christmas Prayer for Peace
by Michael Granger | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
If you were to listen to the popular Bing Crosby version of the Christmas classic, "Do You Hear what I Hear?", you'd be forgiven for thinking the song is a simple diddy about the nativity of Christ, a very appropriate topic considering that this is what the holiday is...