Recently, conservative radio personality Mark Levin went to X to voice his opinion on the ongoing war in Gaza. He linked to an article written by D.W. Wilber, whose background is in U.S. intelligence. In the article, and repeated by Levin, Wilber claims, “So let’s get...
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Shut Up: You’re Not An Expert
by Tom Woods | Dec 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
You're not entitled to an opinion, because you're not an "expert." Can you imagine anyone still speaking this way after the conduct of the so-called "experts" over the past three years? But they do, dear reader. They do. This happened to me just the other day. A...
TGIF: Inspiration for the Nakba?
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The unspeakable violence that plagues Israel and Palestine daily relates in part to the assertion of an ancient, ancestral, and even divinely bestowed property right to a parcel of land, which is often called "holy" and "promised." For background, here are a few...
A Libertarian Defense of Surrogacy
by Benjamin Seevers | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Amidst announcements of gay conservatives having children by surrogate, commentators such as Michael Knowles and Katy Faust levied criticism against the practice of surrogacy in general. These commentators, however, get a lot wrong. Let’s examine each of the most...
What Would Happen If the U.S. Stopped Supporting Ukraine?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional...
U.S. Aid, Political Rights, and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The period 2003-2018 saw Washington annually spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars supporting regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. While some of the effects and outcomes of these “investments” are obvious, such as the lost wars in...
The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…
by Ron Paul | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising. The U.S. standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan...
Kissinger and My Interstate 81 Epiphany
by Jim Bovard | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger died last Wednesday. So far, I’ve been handling the grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. As Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Kissinger summarized the president's order for bombing Cambodia:...