Seemingly out of nowhere, at the beginning of November, President Donald Trump started musing about taking military action in Nigeria to save the Christians from the Islamist terrorist groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province. These groups, which operate in the northeastern part of the country has been the subject of a lengthy and unsuccessful counter-terrorism operation by the Nigerian government, which has received U.S. backing. The issue is being framed as one where the the Nigeria has not tried to deal with the problem or is complicit in the killing of Christians,...

We’re reaching the point in Israel’s Gaza genocide where “everyone was always against this.” Now that starvation may be irreversible in much of the population, more and more voices which have denied genocide for almost two years are, in some form or another, speaking out—including France and Britain saying they will recognize a Palestinian state if the situation doesn’t improve. However, the most fanatical of the Zionists continue to deny that starvation exists in Gaza at all and even say bizarre things such as the starving children in Gaza really have congenital disorders (who are going...

Discussion of American foreign policy is an endless string of talking heads and think tank hacks claiming that we “must” do this or that, for reasons such as global security, values, or credibility. With a little bit of knowledge, it is apparent that the foreign policy class is generally responding to problems they themselves caused (if the problems exist at all). Either way, their concerns are completely remote from what any normal person would understand to be U.S. national interests. In concluding his recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton stated...

Donald Trump's second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government. I previously wrote about “Fighting the Middle State," and at least on that count Trump has not disappointed. He has left the Democrats showing slavish devotion to the federal bureaucracy and the “NGO” sector which employs a veritable army of the useless and over-educated. Most notably, the Trump administration is doing its best...