Anyone following the 2024 presidential election has undoubtedly heard about the political establishment’s latest villain, Project 2025. This policy agenda — technically named the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — was produced by a group of conservative policy...
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Dictator Biden’s Anti-Dictator Constitutional Amendment
by Jim Bovard | Aug 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Twenty years ago, I jokingly proposed a constitutional amendment to require the U.S. government to obey the Constitution. President Biden has one-upped me with his proposal for a “No One is Above the Law” constitutional amendment. But Biden would have been more honest...
Libertarianism and Zionism Can’t Be Squared
by Marc Joffe | Aug 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Jews are the chosen people. God promised us the land of Israel, the only place we can truly be safe. These were among the ideas drilled into me at an early age in Hebrew School, a program of afternoon and weekend education operated by many synagogues. I jettisoned...
TGIF: Democracy as Religion
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
During a conversation with someone who loves representative democracy but hates America's current political situation, I pointed out a problem with his view. The current situation, I said, is a product of representative democracy. So you can't have the system without...
America’s Syrian Gulag
by Brad Pearce | Aug 1, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the beginning of last month the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Ethan Goldrich, granted an interview to Rudaw, which is something like PBS for Iraqi Kurdistan. He emphasized that the United States has no plan to end its occupation...
What Is Government Costing Your Family?
by Thomas Eddlem | Aug 1, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
What would you do if the government came to you and said your family owes it $75,000 this year, and every year, adjusted upward for inflation? You might respond “I can’t afford it.” Don’t worry, you are already paying that. That’s the price the average American...
Help Publish Scott’s New Book, ‘Provoked’
by Dave Smith | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
What's up, everybody? Recently, in preparation for an online debate, I asked Scott Horton for an early copy of his new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. As I said on my podcast, the thing is just...
Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism
by John Weeks | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed...