If it looks like genocide, sounds like genocide, and smells like genocide, chances are it's genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule provisionally on whether that is what Israel is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The...
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The EU Wants to Spy on Europeans’ Internet Use
by Robert Blumen | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
The European Commission is a legislative body in the European Union with regulatory authority over digital technology. The EC’s eIDAS Article 45, a proposed regulation, would deliberately weaken areas of internet security that the industry has carefully evolved and...
Imperialists Will Always Double Down
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While one could choose many appropriate representatives of the quotidian inanity of U.S. foreign policy—the deleterious consequences of which somehow never do anything to dent the authors’ respective career prospects—one could find many equal to but none better than...
Wall Street Journal Sets Standard for Irresponsible Journalism in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’...
Six Books on Government that Libertarians Should Read
by Brad Pearce | Jan 9, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
Libertarians may be masters at telling stories of government incompetence and malfeasance, but they have a tendency of knowing less about making government work (relatively) well. This is understandable, because libertarians don’t like government and thus often aren’t...
Michael Whiteley’s Injustice
by Russ Bedard | Jan 9, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Editor's Note: The case of Michael Whiteley was previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's late managing editor, William Norman Grigg. I'm the voice of Michael Whiteley; a slight stutter when frustrated, a laugh rarely and irritation always just below the...
2024 Will Be the Year of ‘Defend the Guard’
by Pat McGeehan | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2015, the “Defend the Guard Act” was introduced in the West Virginia legislature, aiming to bring sanity to our nation’s foreign policy and the legal abuses foisted upon our servicemen within our state’s National Guard. This proposed law emerged from long forgotten...
Biden: Vote for Me or Hitler Wins
by Jim Bovard | Jan 8, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
“Endless hysteria will keep you free,” said none of the Founding Fathers. But President Joe Biden missed that message before his absurdly overheated speech last Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Biden draped himself in Revolutionary War virtue as he demanded...