Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities by Ryan McMaken Mises Institute, 2022, 230 pp. Those of us who think that there should be no state at all, or at most a very limited one, must view all existing states with...
Book Reviews
‘Fletch’ Lives in the Courageous Pen of Reporters
by Kym Robinson | Oct 17, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.”- Irwin Fletcher In the post-Watergate world, fiction was full of lone wolf reporters, the courageous typewriter and camera that pointed where it was...
Lessons From the Rape of Nanking
by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
The "Rape of Nanking" is a high watermark of imperial savagery, even in the context of the violent and brutal Japanese Empire. This frenzy of rape and genocide was committed against a Chinese populace after their government abandoned the city and the international...
A Vital Book for Sane People
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 18, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The top seller on Amazon for books devoted to war and peace as of this writing, Scott Horton's newest offering, Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a timely must read. As Washington barrels heedlessly along into Cold War II, the American public...
Lessons from Douglas Murray’s ‘The War on the West’
by Keith Knight | May 9, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“We appear to be in the process of killing the goose that has laid some very golden Eggs.”- Douglas Murray, author of The War on the West “[A]s recently as 2006, about 18% of social scientists self-identified as Marxists.”- Bryan Caplan, Ph.D., The Prevalence of...
Why America Has Splintered Into Identity Groups
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 9, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
Many Americans are concerned about the splintering of America into identity groups and are bewildered by critical race theory, queer studies, the proliferation of genders, cancel culture, the claim that reason and logic are constructs of white culture, and the...
Scott Horton Busts Neocon Conspiracies in New Book
by Philip Weiss | May 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last month Foreign Affairs ran an article saying that Iran and Israel were engaged in mutual hostilities that could drag the United States into a war not of our choosing, and there was no mention in the article of the people who really do want the U.S. to go to war...
Scott Horton’s ‘Startling’ New Book: A Review
by Tom Jackson | Apr 21, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton's new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism serves as an excellent guide to America's misadventures and war crimes since the 9/11 attack in 2001, including the endless war in Afghanistan, the wars with Iraq, our constant bullying of Iran,...