There are great reasons for the United States to adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy. Some of these are ethical, such as not violating the rights of other people and not supporting or engaging in aggressive conduct generally. Others are partly ethical and...
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Democracy Cannot Lead to Self-Governance
by Jeb Smith | Jun 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Democracies end up anti-democratic because only a tiny minority of radicals (politicians, interest groups, major corporations, etc.) achieve power centralized in the capital. They work the levers of government, place their servants in power, and advertise via...

TGIF: The US Empire’s 72-Year War on Iran
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The likely temporary Israel-Iran ceasefire notwithstanding, if you need proof of how despicable Donald Trump is, consider this: When asked last week if he would ask Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to stop bombing Iran, which had already said it would stop retaliating...

Lessons Unlearned from Israel’s Bombing of Iraq’s Osirak Reactor
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jun 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a New York Times opinion article on June 21, Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israel’s military intelligence, attempted to defend Israel’s recent decision to start a war with Iran, in which Israel was briefly joined by the U.S. government under the administration of...
Want More Families? End Inflation
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 26, 2025 | Book Reviews, Economics, Featured Articles
In the recently published Inflation and the Family, Jason Degner delivers a compelling, accessible, and deeply necessary work—one that lays bare the real, grinding consequences of inflationary policies on everyday American families. For those concerned with economic...
Mencken’s Forgotten Wisdom on War
by Jim Bovard | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
As a stampede of weasels just sought to con America into supporting another Mideast war, it is time remember America’s most underrated critic of bellicose folly. H.L. Mencken is famous for his smackdowns of politicians and ridicule of government and of much of...
Libertarianism Requires a ‘Subjective Morality’
by Sean Dolan | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Many libertarians claim that morality is an objective, universal code that dictates right from wrong. They believe objective morality exists as a universal principle that applies regardless of personal beliefs, people's cultures, or historical context. This view...
Trump’s ‘Antiwar’ Myth and the Zionist Reality
by José Niño | Jun 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump’s “America First” message promised an end to foreign entanglements, but his aggressive Iran policy tells us a different story. His administration’s decision to carry out airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Fordow, and Natanz on June 21,...