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...
Book Reviews
The Rise of Labour, and What It Teaches Us
by Michael Ellis | May 28, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, History, Politics
Every period of history, and indeed every event, is both entirely unique and simultaneously a carbon copy of some earlier model. At the moment, the British party system is in disarray; a new insurgent populist movement is capturing the energy of a great body of...

Let Colleges Fail!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 1, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
In Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education, Richard K. Vedder delivers a timely, incisive, and much-needed diagnosis of America’s bloated and increasingly dysfunctional university system. Published by the Independent Institute,...

Chronicle of An Unnecessary War: How the West Provoked Russia and Squandered Peace
by Michael Holmes | Mar 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton’s 900-page masterpiece, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, is a hugely important work that meticulously documents how three decades of Western encirclement provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
The (Inconvenient) Truth About the War in Ukraine
by John Mac Ghlionn | Feb 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally featured at The American Spectator and is republished with permission. NATO’s top military officials recently met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, touring a long-range weapons plant and discussing continued military aid, even as most...
Reintroducing Liberty’s Master Historian
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 7, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
On June 1, 1983, at a morning session of the Cato Institute Summer Seminar, attendees bore witness to what remains to this day one of the greatest single revisionist retellings of the tragic and formative period of world history: 1914-1945. For three hours, Dr. Ralph...
Exposing Truth Through History and Fiction
by John Weeks | Dec 16, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
Since Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton published Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine in November, there has been a renewed intellectual struggle between antiwar Americans and the War Party. Horton has...
The Long Train of Abuses that Culminated in the Ukraine War
by Carus Michaelangelo | Dec 16, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.” Scott Horton is the liberty movement’s foreign policy hedgehog, endeavoring to convince the American public of one essential truth: the folly of war. But within that sphere, Horton is a fox, weaving an...