Editor's note: Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton gave this speech to the Tbilisi Summer Forum on June 6, 2025. No offense, but Georgia’s interests are just none of my affair. It’s such a long way from here. I know my government has been messing around there...
Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq—a war they pretended...
The following is adapted from a speech Scott gave to the Libertarian Party of Utah on February 26, 2022. Just to get this out of the way first real quick: Whenever someone dares to differ with the common government and TV narrative about Russia and their role in the...
The following is the Introduction to the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. The Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia are in chaos. Populations have been riven by sectarian...
To: Institute supporters, readers and listeners From: the Director: Here's a bit of an Institute progress report. We're in the middle of our Fund drive, which is going great. We've already raised more than $40,000 out of the $50,000 we're pushing for, and a generous...
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...
