Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland gave an interview with exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar that was published to YouTube on September 3 and the conversation deserves more attention than it received. While an interview from...
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TGIF: “We Are All Social Engineers Now”
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 20, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I don't know if anyone has actually said, "We are all social engineers now," but someone might as well have. (The variation "We are all Keynesians now" was declared a long time ago, even by Milton Friedman, although see this.) When I say "all," of course, I don't mean...
Israel’s Pager Terrorism
by Brad Pearce | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Tuesday, September 17, Lebanon experienced one of the most widespread terrorist attacks in history. All at once, pagers across the south of the country indicated they had received a message and then exploded. As of Tuesday night it was said fourteen people were...
Ukraine at the Crossroads
by Ted Snider | Sep 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country's prewar borders, but the reclamation...
The Case for Pessimism in Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On September 11, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the director of the Asia Engagement Program at Defense Priorities and director of the China Initiative at Brown University, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, on the need for Washington to work to improve its relations with...
The Philosophy that Framed the Constitution
by Dan Sanchez | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Today [September 17] is Constitution Day in America. The federal holiday (technically Constitution Day and Citizenship Day) commemorates the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787. The 2004 law that established it requires all taxpayer-funded educational...
Economic Nationalism and Corporatism Go Hand in Hand
by John Weeks | Sep 17, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump could return to power in 2025. We can expect a second Trump administration to give us more of the same: economic nationalism. This is concerning because economic nationalism degrades our economy, impoverishes our citizens, and promotes...
To Promote Peace, You Must Fight Statism
by Oscar Grau | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
U.S.-Zionist imperialism in the Middle East is far from coming to an end. The Hamas attack of October 7 on Israel triggered a highly murderous phase in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The subsequent retaliation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and...