Among the torrent of publications continually inundating the policy community and reading public, few are worth reading—between banality and bad ideas, most would have been better left unwritten. A notable recent exception to this general rule, however, is Dr. Ivan...
On April 15, 2025, the Australian documentary show titled Border Security featured Pete, an American man traveling to Australia to visit his girlfriend, Anna, of ten years. He caught the attention of the airport security since he was traveling alone, and only had six...
The Washington Naval Treaty is usually treated, when mentioned at all by historians, as an unmitigated failure, but—although he says this in the most pianissimo tones—I think John Jordan’s Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets,...
If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of...
To memorialize William F. Buckley Jr., as Sam Tanenhaus does in his recent biography and Charles King does in his review, is to celebrate the betrayal of the American conservative tradition. This betrayal was not incidental to Buckley’s career—it was its defining...
George Selgin’s False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, newly published by the University of Chicago Press, is a welcome contribution to the revisionist and post-revisionist literature on the legacy of the New Deal. While traditional historiographies of...
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...
When Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter published America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan in 2005, it was met with polite attention and quiet dismissal by most of the foreign policy establishment, which at that time was...
