A recent Foreign Policy article makes a case that the role of the government in the U.S. economy has grown under President Trump. Normally this would seem contrary to the values of a conservative administration. However, Trump is no small-government conservative nor...
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Freedom vs. Liberty: How Subtle Differences Between These Two Big Ideas Changed Our World
“I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the...
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement
Since today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is fitting to reflect on the legacy of Sophie Scholl, leader of the White Rose movement. The White Rose movement was a group of German students who distributed pamphlets calling for active, albeit peaceful, resistance to...
Cops Charged After Video Shows Them Pull Disabled Man From His Home, Torture Him in Front Yard
As TFTP previously reported, horrifying surveillance footage was released showing multiple police officers aggressively assaulting and torturing a disabled man in his front yard after they dragged him from his home during a welfare check. That footage has led to the...
Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires?
I. Introduction: The Graveyard of Empires In discussions of Afghanistan in today’s world, the assertion that the country is a “graveyard of empires” is often made. While the statement is correctly accepted as a caution against overconfident intervention by foreign...
America Cannot Save Afghanistan
After nearly two decades of bloodshed, meaningful progress is finally being made towards a conclusion of the war in Afghanistan. Negotiations with the Taliban in Qatar have achieved an uncommon consistency. On the domestic front, a bipartisan resolution matching the...
Absolute Federal Supremacy: The Myth That Just Won’t Go Away
It never goes away – the myth of absolute federal supremacy. I got an email from a Tenth Amendment Center volunteer in Illinois last week. He has been working to get the Fourth Amendment Protection Act introduced there. Passage of the bill would end state cooperation...
Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers
Max Blumenthal’s new book, “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump,” is over 300 pages and wastes not a word. It also does far more than it claims. “This book,” Blumenthal writes, “makes...
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