President Joe Biden seeks to boost government school spending to close the achievement gap between white and black students. According to the Biden administration, disparities in student test scores justify further government intervention. But Biden ignores how...
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America’s Ugly History with the International Criminal Court
by Ted Snider | May 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 20, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed...
The End of Zelensky’s Legitimacy
by Brad Pearce | May 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Volodymyr Zelensky’s term as the president of Ukraine expired on Monday, May 20. He won’t be leaving office, on the pretense that Ukraine’s Constitution currently prohibits holding elections under a state of martial law. Based on this reasoning, the elections for the...
Walter Block Succumbs to the Fake China Threat
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are those who will say that what follows is “piling on,” or “nitpicking,” or perhaps any number of other things. It is, however, at bottom a simple matter of defending a principle and of defending the truth. And while it gives me no pleasure to write the...
The Danger Is Not China But the ‘Fake China Threat’
by John V. Walsh | May 28, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At times a book is convincing not only because its arguments are sound but also because of the author’s identity. It would be no surprise to encounter a book penned by a socialist or Sinophile that takes on the false portrait of China that graces the U.S. media. But...
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Our Societal Detachment from War
by John Weeks | May 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Modern nation states have developed an impressive symbolic innovation to memorialize their war dead, the tomb of the unknown soldier: “No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers. The public...
TGIF: The Economic Is Personal
by Sheldon Richman | May 24, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Contrary to accepted doctrine, we have no grounds for regarding so-called economic liberties as less important or less worthy of protection than so-called personal, or civil, liberties. That's because we have no essential grounds for distinguishing so-called economic...
The Anti-Capitalist Social Order in Hollywood, and Our Campuses
by John Weeks | May 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
The historian of reason Mark Ajita once described college as the place where young people go into massive debt and enslave their future selves so “they can go there and read books about how it shouldn’t be this way.” Never has this been more apparent than this spring...