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That Time the United States Gave Iran Highly Enriched Uranium…

by Clark Patterson | Oct 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Libertarians frequently note the incoherence of American and Israeli foreign policy. Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to American and Israeli relations with Iran over the last seventy-five years. Last June, the United States and Israel bombed Iran on the pretext of halting Iran's supposed nuclear weapons program and destroying its alleged stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU). But contrary to popular knowledge, the U.S. government actually helped begin Iran’s nuclear program in 1957 under our government’s Atoms for Peace initiative. For Iran’s first nuclear research...

The Allies Could Have Done More, and Chose Not To

by Clark Patterson | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, History

Over the last year, a renewed controversy has arisen over the morality of World War II. For the last eighty years, World War II has been sold in the West as "The Good War" in which the United Kingdom and the United States, in spite of committing some war crimes, saved millions of Jewish refugees from perishing in the Holocaust. But the evidence actually shows that both countries’ refusal to allow millions of innocent civilian refugees to immigrate to Britain and the U.S. before, during, and after the war contributed to the deaths of millions. If Britain and the U.S. had admitted mass numbers...

The Hawk’s 1945 Project

by Clark Patterson | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History

Two weeks ago at The Free Press (TFP), Rebeccah L. Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute wrote a 3,000-word article critiquing conservative disapproval of President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran last month. Heinrichs linked this conservative denunciation of Trump’s recent military escapade to more comprehensive criticism on the right of America’s post-World War II foreign policy, generally, and America’s involvement in World War II, specifically. Within the last year, podcasters Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper, and Dave Smith—all with at least tangential ties to the Make America Great Again...

Where the Fourth Wave Went Wrong

by Clark Patterson | Oct 9, 2020 | Featured Articles

The recent deaths of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and pop singer Helen Reddy provide an opportunity to take stock of the fourth-wave of the feminist movement, and how dramatically it has changed since the intial achievements of the second-wave (circa 1960-1990) Ginsburg’s first major court case as an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney was Reed v. Reed (1971), in which the ACLU argued that Idaho’s legalized preference for male administrators of estates violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, on the basis of sex. When the case reached the U.S. Supreme...

That Time the United States Gave Iran Highly Enriched Uranium…

The Allies Could Have Done More, and Chose Not To

The Hawk’s 1945 Project

Where the Fourth Wave Went Wrong

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